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"I recollect all about you, and if you wish it you shall come on board again, but I want first to know who all those people are." "All slavy, slavy," answered Pango. "Dey jus' dress up, an' when I tell cap'n dat trick no do, he cut me down an' try to kill me." "There is no time to be lost; take him up on deck, and we will soon show the skipper that you speak the truth," said Tom.
We accordingly hove to, that they might be able to get up the side, when a huge fellow in a broad-brimmed straw hat and a pair of trousers with pink stripes came on deck, and walking up to the captain, shook hands with him as with an old friend. "Ah, massa cap'n, glad to see you 'gain. You take plent slavy him dare all ready;" and he pointed up the river. "All right, Master Pogo.
Pango's countenance became very sad. "Do slavy man take him. Me tinke cut him troat. Me not see him now five years;" and poor Pango burst into tears as he thought of the fate which had overtaken Bango, showing that some Africans, at all events, have as great an affection for their relatives as have white men for theirs.
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