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It was contained in a glass bowl, capable of holding two gallons, standing upon a single stalk, and bearing the appearance of a Brobdingnag rummer. Boy Jack brought it with both hands, and placed it before his master. "Now, sir, will you drink?" said the planter, addressing Mr Berecroft. "Thank you," replied Mr Berecroft, "I never drink so early in the morning."
"Well, captain, now you have witnessed what is termed slavery, what is your opinion? Are your philanthropists justified in their invectives against us?" "First assure me that all other plantations are as well regulated as your own," replied Mr Berecroft.
Mr Berecroft, the master of the vessel, advanced Newton a sum to fit himself out, and agreed with the owner at Liverpool that one-half of Newton's wages should be allotted monthly to his father. The next morning, as the vessel had a pilot on board, and the weather had moderated, Newton took leave of his father, and with a light heart accompanied his new acquaintance on board of the vessel.
When he perceived Mr Berecroft, he fell back with astonishment, and turned pale. "I thought you were gone," said he: "why, what could have saved you? did you not drift out to sea?" "It appears, then, Mr Jackson, that you knew that I was adrift," replied the master, seriously, looking him steadfastly in the face.
"Now, gentlemen, let me recommend you to take a white jacket; you'll be more at your ease, and there is no ceremony here. Boy Jack, where's the sangoree? This is a fine climate, Captain Berecroft; all you have to attend to is to be temperate, and not to check the perspiration."
"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.
Mr Berecroft, in consequence of this resignation of his brother captain, was appointed to the command of the larger vessel; and Jackson, the first-mate, ordered to take the command of the Eliza and Jane. This was a sad blow to Newton, and one which he could not avoid, as Mr Berecroft could not take him in his new ship, all the sub ordinate situations being already filled up.
"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.
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, 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."
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