He also informed me that he believed in predestination;--at least he said that Holloloo, he knew, had ordained that he should come to white man's country and be shot.
'Daaga, having made a successful predatory expedition into the country of the Yarrabas, returned with a number of prisoners of that nation.

These he, as usual, took, bound and guarded, towards the coast to sell to the Portuguese.

The interpreter, his countryman, called these Portuguese white gentlemen.

The white gentlemen proved themselves more than a match for the black gentlemen; and the whole transaction between the Portuguese and Paupaus does credit to all concerned in this gentlemanly traffic in human flesh.
'Daaga sold his prisoners; and under pretence of paying him, he and his Paupau guards were enticed on board a Portuguese vessel;--they were treacherously overpowered by the Christians, who bound them beside their late prisoners, and the vessel sailed over "the great salt water." 'This transaction caused in the breast of the savage a deep hatred against all white men--a hatred so intense that he frequently, during and subsequent to the mutiny, declared he would eat the first white man he killed; yet this cannibal was made to swear allegiance to our Sovereign on the Holy Evangelists, and was then called a British soldier.
'On the voyage the vessel on board which Daaga had been entrapped was captured by the British.

He could not comprehend that his new captors liberated him: he had been over reached and trepanned by one set of white men, and he naturally looked on his second captors as more successful rivals in the human, or rather inhuman, Guinea trade; therefore this event lessened not his hatred for white men in the abstract.
'I was informed by several of the Africans who came with him that when, during the voyage, they upbraided Daaga with being the cause of their capture, he pacified them by promising that when they should arrive in white man's country, he would repay their perfidy by attacking them in the night.