a remuneration for the hazard and trouble which I shall inevitably incur in transporting you to Brass.  If you consent to these resolutions, and on these only will I consent to redeem you, you will forthwith give me a bill on Captain Lake, for the receipt of articles to the value of thirty-five bars, after which you will be at liberty to leave this place, and to go along with me, whenever you may think proper, agreeably to the understanding at present existing between Obie and myself.”

This was delightful news indeed, and they thanked King Boy over and over again for his generosity and nobleness, for they were too much elated at the time to reflect on the exorbitant demands which had been imposed upon them.  Without hesitation they gave him a bill on Mr. Lake; indeed there was not anything which they would not have done, rather than lose the opportunity of getting down to the sea, which seemed so providentially held out to them.

Obie perceived by the great and sudden change in their countenances, the joy which filled their breasts, and having asked them whether they were not pleased with his arrangements, in the fullness of their hearts, he exacted from them a promise, that on returning to England, they would inform their countrymen that he was a good man, and that they would pay him a visit whenever they should come again into the country.

When King Boy came for his book, it was given to him, and he wished to send it down to the brig, to know if it was good.  This was no more than what was to be expected, so he was informed, the book would be of no use, unless they were sent along with it, and that the captain would not pay it, before he had taken them on board, on which he put the bill into his pocket-book.  They then bade him farewell, and he took leave of them in a kind and cordial manner.

Fearing that something might yet occur to detain them, and ultimately to change the king’s resolution altogether, they were most eager to get out of the reach of him and his people as quickly as possible.  Therefore they lost not a moment in hastening to their lodgings, and having sent their people on board Boy’s canoe, they hurried after them immediately, and embarked at three in the afternoon, and thus terminated four of the most wretched days of their existence.  They were unable to take along with them their own old leaky and shattered canoe, as it would detain them very much, from being so heavy to move along.  The Damaggoo people accompanied them in their own canoe, and every thing was arranged for their departure at an early hour on the following day.  The Brass canoe, which was now become their dwelling, was extremely large, and heavily laden.  It was paddled by forty men and boys, in addition to whom there might be about twenty individuals, or more, including a few slaves and themselves, so that the number of human beings amounted altogether to sixty.