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"Do you really intend to call the child by that name?" inquired Mr Berecroft. "Why not? it pleases the woman, and is as good as any other; it is of no consequence. They almost all have names, certainly not quite so long as the present; but, as they grow longer, their names grow shorter.
Well, I'll admit all this," replied Mr Berecroft, who had a great dislike to points of Scripture being canvassed after dinner; "and I wish to know what inference you would draw from it."
"Then what does the man do?" inquired Berecroft. "Man, sar," replied the negro proudly, "man go fight go kill." "Is that all?" "Yes, sar, that all." "So, you then mean to say, that if you could go back to Ashantee now, you would remain there?" "Yes, sar, stay there do no work sleep all day make women feed me." "How inveterate is early habit!" observed Mr Berecroft.
"So, you then mean to say, that if you could go back to Ashantee now you would remain there?" "Yes, sar, stay there do no work sleep all day make women feed me." "How inveterate is early habit!" observed Mr Berecroft. "This man, although free in a civilised country, would return to his idleness, and resume his former ignorance." "And so would every slave not born in the country.
"Very often enough to purchase their freedom, if they wished it." "If they wished it!" replied Mr Berecroft with surprise. "Yes; without explanation, that may appear strange to you, and still more strange, the fact, that freedom offered has often been refused.
At the request of Mr Berecroft, Newton was invited to stay at the house of Mr Kingston, the gentleman to whom the vessel had been consigned an offer which was gladly accepted.
The company amused themselves with distributing to the children the contents of the dishes on the table the elder ones nestling alongside of the planter and his friends with the greatest familiarity, while the younger sat upright on the floor, laughing as they devoured their respective portions. "Of course, these are all slaves?" observed Mr Berecroft.
The ladies had been about a quarter of an hour on deck, when the sun, which had not shown itself for two days, gleamed through the clouds. Newton, who was officer of the watch, and had been accustomed, when with Mr Berecroft, to work a chronometer, interrupted the captain, who was leaning on the carronade, talking to Mrs Ferguson.
It was Mr Berecroft's custom to call down the seamen into his cabin every evening, and read to them a short prayer; and, although this unusual ceremony often caused a leer in some of the newly-entered men, and was not only unattended but ridiculed by Jackson, still the whole conduct of Berecroft was so completely in unison, that even the most idle and thoughtless acknowledged that he was a good man, and quitted the ship with regret.
"Well, Newton," said Mr Berecroft as soon as they were alone, "what do you think of the planter?" "I think that, considering his constant advice to be temperate, he swallowed a very large quantity of arrack punch." "He did indeed; but what think you of his arguments?" "I hardly can say, except that none of them were sufficiently convincing to induce me to be a slave proprietor.
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