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Updated: May 12, 2025
The negro upon the raft, though black as the blackest of his unfortunate countrymen, was not among the number of those who had been carried as freight. On the contrary, he was one of the crew, the lord of the caboose, and known upon the slave-bark by the satirical soubriquet of "Snowball."
The man was Ben Brace, the bravest and best sailor on board the slave-bark, and one who would not have shipped in such a craft but for wrongs he had suffered while in the service of his country, and that had inducted him into a sort of reckless disposition, of which, however, he had long since repented. The boy had also been the victim of a similar disposition.
The breeze which had brought Ben and little William back among the wreck-drift of the slave-bark, leading to a renewal of intercourse with their old shipmate, Snowball, had been blowing in the contrary direction to that in which the sailor intended to steer. This breeze, however, was not such as was to be looked for in that latitude.
At a glance he would have recognised the debris of the burnt ship, from which he and his companion had so narrowly escaped, the slave-bark Pandora.
A few words must suffice for both. As already stated, at the beginning of our narrative, a raft was constructed out of such timbers as could be detached from the slave-bark Pandora, after that vessel had caught fire, and previous to her blowing up.
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