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but that\r\nfor this they afterwards were sorry, the mate being the only remaining\r\nnavigator on board, except the deponent.\r\n\r\n\r\n—That omitting other events, which daily happened, and which can only\r\nserve uselessly to recall past misfortunes and conflicts, after\r\nseventy-three days’ navigation, reckoned from the time they sailed from\r\nNasca, during which they navigated under a scanty allowance of water,\r\nand were afflicted with the calms before mentioned, they at last\r\narrived at the island of Santa Maria, on the seventeenth of the month\r\nof August, at about six o’clock in the afternoon, at which hour they\r\ncast anchor very near the American ship, Bachelor’s Delight, which lay\r\nin the same bay, commanded by the generous Captain Amasa Delano; but at\r\nsix o’clock in the morning, they had already descried the port, and the\r\nnegroes became uneasy, as soon as at distance they saw the ship, not\r\nhaving expected to see one there; that the negro Babo pacified them,\r\nassuring them that no fear need be had; that straightway he ordered the\r\nfigure on the bow to be covered with canvas, as for repairs and had the\r\ndecks a little set in order; that for a time the negro Babo and the\r\nnegro Atufal conferred; that the negro Atufal was for sailing away, but\r\nthe negro Babo would not, and, by himself, cast about what to do; that\r\nat last he came to the deponent, proposing to him to say and do all\r\nthat the deponent declares to have said and done to the American\r\ncaptain; * * * * * * * that the negro Babo warned him that if he varied\r\nin the least, or uttered any word, or gave any look that should give\r\nthe least intimation of the past events or present state, he would\r\ninstantly kill him, with all his companions, showing a dagger, which he\r\ncarried hid, saying something which, as he understood it, meant that\r\nthat dagger would be alert as his eye; that the negro Babo then\r\nannounced the plan to all his companions, which pleased them; that he\r\nthen, the better to disguise the truth, devised many expedients, in\r\nsome of them uniting deceit and defense; that of this sort was the\r\ndevice of the six Ashantees before named, who were his bravoes; that\r\nthem he stationed on the break of the poop, as if to clean certain\r\nhatchets (in cases, which were part of the cargo), but in reality to\r\nuse them, and distribute them at need, and at a given word he told\r\nthem; that, among other devices, was the device of presenting Atufal,\r\nhis right hand man, as chained, though in a moment the chains could be\r\ndropped; that in every particular he informed the deponent what part he\r\nwas expected to enact in every device, and what story he was to tell on\r\nevery occasion, always threatening him with instant death if he varied\r\nin the least: that, conscious that many of the negroes would be\r\nturbulent, the negro Babo appointed the four aged negroes, who were\r\ncalkers, to keep what domestic order they could on the decks; that\r\nagain and again he harangued the Spaniards and his companions,\r","title":"Chunk 5"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6YGRZV0KE1D14HBMV4YQHZ","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6YDDF6PTWG4P7JTS5THSTD","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6YHDD7JDH7WT63G8JZPGQJ","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6YHDZ0749F6SHSNCT35Z18","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T07:58:00.615Z","ts":"2026-01-30T07:58:05.618Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}