Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17

struck me on the face with his hand, yet
also without doing me any injury. Then he
thrust his hook almost into my eyes, all the
while crying out in Spanish, stamping his
feet and splitting upon the ground, which
last these black men do to express the
height of their anger.
And 1t cut me to the heart to see him and
to hearken. For l remembered all his for
mer kindnesses to Anna and all of u.s. But
said to myself that there is great differ
ence between man who Is a slave and who
expects favors and one in the position of
power and authority over his former mas
tiers. Yet wtthal. I was full of heartsick-
infinitely better Of Eborra after his good
ness to us on the Isle of the Winds
But" said I to myself after he had
a q about and enc to tear the
knoweth the heart Of another till he be
tried by prosperity, which is test more
difficult and trying than any depth of
misery"
Presently Eborra left me and betook him
TO VIII Bowman, to whom he behaved in
like manner, but if possible yet more cruel
been his "overseer'' among the English, and
that now he would show him how it tasted
to be slave
But, after all. Eborra, mayhap remem-
berng some Of our former kindnesses gave
each of us hat made of a broad leaf and
cast about our shoulders short, striped
| near one end of 1.-THE which is called in
| this country poncho. and is very suitable
| either for heat or cold. We were in the
ehot neea OF sbom1S such covering for
naked, exposed alike to the rigors of the
| sun, and the biting Of the buzzIng gnats
which abounded there, called muskittoes.
| For one of the negroes who conducted us to
| the gang had taken a fancy to our upper
| clothes, which, though frjyed with our ad-
ventures, were Of Umphray spurway's own
| good cloth. He made us shift them, giving
| us no more than a lash OF his whip over
| our naked shoulders in exchange.
"Dere massas, both" he said. for. like
| many of his kindred, the brute spoke a
| little broken English, a sort of lingua
franco they all use in these parts. Deere,
you dam skin lily white now-soon grow
| black like poor Quasseep'
| Moreover, at this Ehorra, for all his
| seeming cruelty and furious anger against
u.s. did US one great kindness. He laid a
spell upon us which made us sacred to his
own peculiar Obeah. We became his
meat" as they expressed it-not to be
abused or molested by any of the other
| overseers on pain Of the curse Of Eborras
devil, Of which they were prodigiously
afraid.
Every day we were marched out of oul
cells in the monastery square, through the
booths of the free workmen to a road
which was being made in the direction of
the civil settlement. 1t had been recently
commenced by the military governor, whose
lady desired greatly to ride in her carriage
only the mile or two between the town OF
Porto Rico and the religious settlement OF
ST. John of Brozas. So In carriage like
that OF full blue-blooded grandee had
been brought all the way from old Spain
the wheels being taken from the body and
| both dashed on the deck of the ship. The
prisoners had helped to unload these on
the mole at Porto Rico. Mules of noble
| white color had come from the town of
Vera Cruz, and now the chain gang was
busted making the road upon which this
eQu!page was to be exercised.
Every day. said Carrel. Donna Luanks
Silveda rode out to observe what progress
had been made, and If the work did not pro.
| coed fast enough to please her she would
| strike the overseers with her riding whiI
over the face and hands-a thing which al
| first the prisoners had been glad of, blu,
changed their minds when they found as
soon as she was gone that for every blow
the negroes had taken from her they be.