14/133 They were chained two and two by heavy chains fastened to iron bands around their necks. On another occasion, we saw the same gang at work in the yard attached to the Independent chapel. He was accompanied by Mr.Thomson, who came to introduce him as his friend. We were not left to this recommendation alone, suspicious as it was, to infer the character of this magistrate, for we were advertised previously that he was a "planter's man"-- unjust and cruel to the apprentices. Major B.appeared to have been looking through his friend Thomson's prophetic telescope. |