When I found he was still obstinate, not knowing whether it was from sulkiness or insanity, I ordered a person to present him with a piece of fire in one hand and a piece of yam in the other, and to tell me what effect this had upon him.

I learnt that he took the yam and began to eat it, but he threw the fire overboard." Such was his own account of the matter.

This was eating by duresse, if any thing could be called so.

The captain, however, triumphed in his expedient, and concluded by telling the committee, that he sold this very slave at Grenada for forty pounds.

Mark here the moral of the tale, and learn the nature and the cure of sulkiness.
But upon whom did the cruelties, thus arising out of the prosecution of this barbarous traffic, fall?
Upon a people with feeling and intellect like ourselves.