"Why, if they did, they would be flogged." "Flogged--heh; well, and if we run away we are to be hanged.

The nigger's better off nor we: ar'n't he, Tom ?" Then the purser's steward came out: he was what they call a bit of a lawyer,--that is, had received more education than the seamen in general.
"I trust, sir," said the man in black, "that you will contribute something." "Not I, my hearty: I owe every farthing of my money, and more too, I'm afraid." "Still, sir, a small trifle." "Why, what an infernal rascal you must be, to ask a man to give away what is not his own property! Did I not tell you that I owed it all?
There's an old proverb--be just before you're generous.

Now, it's my opinion that, you are a methodistical, good-for-nothing blackguard; and if any one is such a fool as to give you money, you will keep it for yourself." When the man found that he could obtain nothing at the door, he went down on the lower deck, in which he did not act very wisely; for now that the men were paid, the boats were permitted to come alongside, and so much spirits were smuggled in, that most of the seamen were more or less intoxicated.

As soon as he went below, he commenced distributing prints of a black man kneeling in chains, and saying, "Am not I your brother ?" Some of the men laughed, and swore that they would paste their brother up in the mess, to say prayers for the ship's company; but others were very angry, and abused him.

At last, one man, who was tipsy, came up to him.