several other traditions that are held among the Turks.  The foundation of his principles was the unity of God; whose name he never pronounced without some particular indication of respect.  “The ideas which he held of the Supreme Being and of a future state, appeared very reasonable to the English; but he was so firm in the persuasion of the divine unity, that it was impossible to get him to reason calmly upon the doctrine of the Trinity.  A New Testament in Arabic had been given him.  He read it; and, giving his ideas, respectfully, concerning it, began by declaring that having examined it carefully, he could not find a word from which he could conclude that there were three Gods."[2]

[Footnote 1:  There is a scarce octavo portrait of him, head and shoulders only, etched by the celebrated painter, Mr. Hoare, of Bath, in 1734, as appears by a manuscript note on the impression of it in Mr. Bindley’s possession.  Under the print is engraved, “JOB, son of Solliman Dgialla, high priest of Bonda, in the country of Foota, Africa.”]

[Footnote 2:  “Il etoit si ferme dans la persuasion de l’unite divine, qu’il fut impossible de le faire raisouner paisiblement sur la Trinite.  On lui avoit donue un Nouveau Testament daus sa langue, il le lut, et s’expliquant, avec respect, sur ce livre, il commence par declarer que l’ayant examine fort soigneusement, il n’y avoit pas trouve un mot d’ou l’on fuit conclure qu’il y eut trois dieux.” Histoire generale des Voyages, par l’Abbe A.F.  Prevost. 4to.  Paris. 1747.  Tom.  III. p. 116.]

Job landed at Fort English on the 8th of August, 1734.  He was recommended particularly by the Directors of the Royal African Company to the Governor and Factors.  They treated him with much respect and civility.  The hope of finding one of his countrymen at Joar, induced him to set out on the 23d in the shallop with Mr. Moore, who was going to take the direction of the factory there.  On the 26th at evening they arrived at the creek of Damasensa.  Whilst Job was seated under a tree with the English, he saw seven or eight negroes pass of the nation that had made him a slave, thirty miles from that place.  Though he was of a mild disposition, he could hardly refrain from attacking them with his sabre and pistols; but Moore made him give up all thought of this, by representing to him the imprudence and danger of such a measure.  They called the negroes to them, to ask them various questions, and to inquire particularly what had become of the king, their master.  They answered that he had lost his life by the discharge of a pistol, which he ordinarily carried suspended to his neck, and which, going off by accident, had killed him on the spot.  As this pistol was supposed to have been one of the articles which he had received of Captain Pyke as the price of Job, the now redeemed captive, deeply affected by the circumstance, turning to his conductors, said, “You see that Heaven has made the very arms for which I was sold, serve