The name of my new master was Jones, a planter, who was only a visiter
in this part of the country; his residence being about fifty miles down
the country. The next day, my new master set off with me to the place of
his residence; permitting me to walk behind him, as he rode on
horseback, and leaving me entirely unshackled. I was resolved, that as
my owner treated me with so much liberality, the trust he reposed in me
should not be broken until after we had reached his home; though the
determination of again running away, and attempting to escape from
Georgia, never abandoned me for a moment.
The country through which we passed, on our journey, was not rich. The
soil was sandy, light, and, in many places, much exhausted by excessive
tillage. The timber, in the woods where the ground was high, was almost
exclusively pine; but many swamps, and extensive tracts of low ground
intervened, in which maple, gum, and all the other trees common to such
land in the South, abounded.
No improvement in the condition of the slaves on the plantations, was
here perceptible; but it appeared to me, that there was now even a
greater want of good clothes, amongst the slaves on the various
plantations that we passed, than had existed twenty years before.
Everywhere, the overseers still kept up the same custom of walking in
the fields with the long whip, that has been elsewhere described; and
everywhere, the slaves proved, by the husky appearance of their skins,
and the dry, sunburnt aspect of their hair, that they were strangers to
animal food.
On the second day of our journey, in the evening, we arrived at the
residence of my master, about eighty miles from Savannah. The
plantation, which had now become the place of my residence, was not
large, containing only about three hundred acres of cleared land, and
having on it about thirty working slaves of all classes.
It was now the very midst of the season of picking cotton, and, at the
end of twenty years from the time of my first flight, I again had a
daily task assigned me, with the promise of half a cent a pound for all
the cotton I should pick, beyond my day's work. Picking cotton, like
every other occupation requiring active manipulation, depends more upon
sleight than strength, and I was not now able to pick so much in a day
as I was once able to do.
My master seemed to be a man ardently bent on the acquisition of wealth,
and came into the field, where we were at work, almost every day;
frequently remonstrating, in strong language, with the overseer, because
he did not get more work done.
Our rations, on this place, were a half peck of corn per week; in
addition to which, we had rather more than a peck of sweet potatoes
allowed to each person. Our provisions were distributed to us on every
Sunday morning by the overseer; but my master was generally present,
either to see that justice was done to us, or that injustice was not
done to himself.
When I had been here about a week, my master came into the field one
day, and, in passing near me, stopped and told me that I had now fallen
into good hands, as it was his practice not to whip his people much.
That he, in truth, never whipped them, nor suffered his overseer to whip
them, except in flagrant cases. That he had discovered a mode of
punishment much more mild, and, at the same time, much more effectual
than flogging; and that he governed his negroes exclusively under this
mode of discipline. He then told me, that when I came home in the
evening I must come to the house; and that he would then make me
acquainted with the principles upon which he chastised his slaves.
Going to the house in the evening, according to orders, my master
showed me a pump, set in a well in which the water rose within ten feet
of the surface of the ground. The spout of this pump was elevated at
least thirteen feet above the earth, and when the water was to be drawn
from it, the person who worked the handle ascended by a ladder to the
proper station.--The water in this well, although so near the surface,
was very cold; and the pump discharged it in a large stream. One of the
women employed in the house, had committed some offence for which she
was to be punished; and the opportunity was embraced of exhibiting to me
the effect of this novel mode of torture upon the human frame. The woman
was stripped quite naked, and tied to a post that stood just under the
stream of water, as it fell from the spout of the pump. A lad was then
ordered to ascend the ladder, and pump water upon the head and shoulders
of the victim; who had not been under the waterfall more than a minute,
before she began to cry and scream in a most lamentable manner. In a
short time, she exerted her strength, in the most convulsive throes, in
trying to escape from the post; but as the cords were strong, this was
impossible. After another minute or a little more, her cries became
weaker, and soon afterwards her head fell forward upon her breast; and
then the boy was ordered to cease pumping the water. The woman was
removed in a state of insensibility; but recovered her faculties in
about an hour. The next morning she complained of lightness of head, but
was able to go to work.
This punishment of the pump, as it is called, was never inflicted on me;
and I am only able to describe it, as it has been described to me, by
those who have endured it.
When the water first strikes the head and arms, it is not at all
painful; but in a very short time, it produces the sensation that is
felt when heavy blows are inflicted with large rods, of the size of a
man's finger. This perception becomes more and more painful, until the
skull bone and shoulder blades appear to be broken in pieces. Finally,
all the faculties become oppressed; breathing becomes more and more
difficult; until the eye-sight becomes dim, and animation ceases. This
punishment is in fact a temporary murder; as all the pains are endured,
that can be felt by a person who is deprived of life by being beaten
with bludgeons; but after the punishment of the pump, the sufferer is
restored to existence by being laid in a bed, and covered with warm
clothes. A giddiness of the head, and oppression of the breast, follows
this operation, for a day or two, and sometimes longer. The object of
calling me to be a witness of this new mode of torture, doubtlessly, was
to intimidate me from running away; but like medicines administered by
empirics, the spectacle had precisely the opposite effect, from that
which it was expected to produce.
After my arrival on this estate, my intention had been to defer my
elopement until the next year, before I had seen the torture inflicted
on this unfortunate woman; but from that moment my resolution was
unalterably fixed, to escape as quickly as possible. Such was my
desperation of feeling, at this time, that I deliberated seriously upon
the project of endeavoring to make my way southward, for the purpose of
joining the Indians in Florida. Fortune reserved a more agreeable fate
for me.
On the Saturday night after the woman was punished at the pump, I stole
a yard of cotton bagging from the cotton-gin house, and converted it
into a bag, by means of a coarse needle and thread that I borrowed of
one of the black women. On the next morning, when our weekly rations
were distributed to us, my portion was carefully placed in my bag, under
pretence of fears that it would be stolen from me, if it was left open
in the loft of the kitchen that I lodged in.
This day being Sunday, I did not go to the field to work as usual, on
that day, but under pretence of being unwell, remained in the kitchen
all day, to be better prepared for the toils of the following night.
After daylight had totally disappeared, taking my bag under my arm,
under pretense of going to the mill to grind my corn, I stole softly
across the cotton fields to the nearest woods, and taking an observation
of the stars, directed my course to the eastward, resolved that in no
event should anything induce me to travel a single yard on the high
road, until at least one hundred miles from this plantation.
Keeping on steadily through the whole of this night, and meeting with no
swamps, or briery thickets in my way, I have no doubt that before
daylight the plantation was more than thirty miles behind me.
Twenty years before this I had been in Savannah, and noted at that time
that great numbers of ships were in that port, taking in and loading
cotton. My plan was now to reach Savannah, in the best way I could, by
some means to be devised after my arrival in the city, to procure a
passage to some of the northern cities.
When day appeared before me, I was in a large cotton field, and before
the woods could be reached, it was gray dawn; but the forest bordering
on the field was large, and afforded me good shelter through the day,
under the cover of a large thicket of swamp laurel that lay at the
distance of a quarter of a mile from the field. It now became necessary
to kindle a fire, for all my stock of provisions, consisting of corn and
potatoes, was raw and undressed. Less fortunate now than in my former
flight, no fire apparatus was in my possession, and driven at last to
the extremity, I determined to endeavor to produce fire by rubbing two
sticks together, and spent at least two hours of incessant toil, in this
vain operation, without the least prospect of success. Abandoning this
project at length, I turned my thoughts to searching for a stone of some
kind, with which to endeavor to extract fire from an old jack-knife,
that had been my companion in Maryland for more than three years. My
labors were fruitless. No stone could be found in this swamp, and the
day was passed in anxiety and hunger, a few raw potatoes being my only
food.
Night at length came, and with it a renewal of my traveling labors.
Avoiding with the utmost care, every appearance of a road, and pursuing
my way until daylight, I must have traveled at least thirty miles this
night. Awhile before day, in crossing a field, I fortunately came upon a
bed of large pebbles, on the side of a hill. Several of these were
deposited in my bag, which enabled me when day arrived to procure fire,
with which I parched corn and roasted potatoes sufficient to subsist me
for two or three days. On the fourth night of my journey, fortune
directed me to a broad, open highway, that appeared to be much traveled.
Near the side of this road I established my quarters for the day in a
thick pine wood, for the purpose of making observations upon the people
who traveled it, and of judging thence of the part of the country to
which it led.
Soon after daylight a wagon passed along, drawn by oxen, and loaded with
bales of cotton; then followed some white men on horseback, and soon
after sunrise a whole train of wagons and carts, all loaded with bales
of cotton, passed by, following the wagon first seen by me. In the
course of the day, at least one hundred wagons and carts passed along
this road towards the south-east, all laden with cotton bales; and at
least an equal number came towards the west, either laden with casks of
various dimensions, or entirely empty. Numerous horsemen, many
carriages, and great numbers of persons on foot, also passed to and fro
on this road, in the course of the day.
All these indications satisfied me that I must be near some large town,
the seat of an extensive cotton market. The next consideration with me
was to know how far it was to this town, for which purpose I determined
to travel on the road the succeeding night.
Lying in the woods until about eleven o'clock, I rose, came to the road
and traveled it until within an hour of daylight, at which time the
country around me appeared almost wholly clear of timber; and houses
became much more numerous than they had been in the former part of my
journey.
Things continued to wear this aspect until daylight, when I stopped, and
sat down by the side of a high fence that stood beside the road. After
remaining here a short time, a wagon laden with cotton passed along,
drawn by oxen, whose driver, a black man, asked me if I was going
towards town. Being answered in the affirmative, he then asked me if I
did not wish to ride in his wagon. I told him I had been out of town all
night, and should be very thankful to him for a ride; at the same time
ascending his wagon and placing myself in a secure and easy position on
the bags of cotton.
In this manner we traveled on for about two hours, when we entered the
town of Savannah. In my situation there was no danger of any one
suspecting me to be a runaway slave; for no runaway had ever been known
to flee from the country and seek refuge in Savannah.
The man who drove the wagon passed through several of the principal
streets of the city, and stopped his team before a large warehouse,
standing on a wharf, looking into the river. Here I assisted my new
friend to unload his cotton, and when we were done he invited me to
share his breakfast with him, consisting of corn bread, roasted
potatoes, and some cold boiled rice.
Whilst we were at our breakfast, a black man came along the street, and
asked us if we knew where he could hire a hand, to help him to work a
day or two. I at once replied that my master had sent me to town to hire
myself out for a few weeks, and that I was ready to go with him
immediately. The joy I felt at finding employment so overcame me, that
all thought of my wages was forgotten. Bidding farewell to the man who
had given me my breakfast, and thanking him in my heart for his
kindness, I followed my new employer, who informed me that he had
engaged to remove a thousand bales of cotton from a large warehouse, to
the end of a wharf at which a ship lay, that was taking in the cotton as
a load.
This man was a slave, but hired his time of his master at two hundred
and fifty dollars a year, which he said he paid in monthly instalments.
He did what he called job work, which consisted of undertaking jobs, and
hiring men to work under him, if the job was too great to be performed
by himself. In the present instance he had seven or eight black men,
beside me, all hired to help him to remove the cotton in wheel-barrows,
and lay it near the end of the wharf, when it was taken up by sailors
and carried on board the ship that was receiving it.
We continued working hard all day; and amongst the crew of the ship was
a black man, with whom I resolved to become acquainted by some means.
Accordingly at night after we had quit our work, I went to the end of
the wharf against which the ship lay moored, and stood there a long
time, waiting for the black sailor to make his appearance on deck. At
length my desires were gratified. He came upon the deck, and sat down
near the main-mast, with a pipe in his mouth, which he was smoking with
great apparent pleasure. After a few minutes, I spoke to him, for he had
not yet seen me as it appeared, and when he heard my voice, he rose up
and came to the side of the ship near where I stood. We entered into
conversation together, in the course of which he informed me that his
home was in New-York; that he had a wife and several children there, but
that he followed the sea for a livelihood, and knew no other mode of
life. He also asked me where my master lived, and if Georgia had always
been the place of my residence.
I deemed this a favorable opportunity of effecting the object I had in
view, in seeking the acquaintance of this man, and told him at once that
by law and justice I was a free man, but had been kidnapped near
Baltimore, forcibly brought to Georgia, and sold there as a slave. That
I was now a fugitive from my master, and in search of some means of
getting back to my wife and children.
The man seemed moved by the account of my sufferings, and at the close
of my narrative, told me he could not receive me on board the ship, as
the captain had given positive orders to him, not to let any of the
negroes of Savannah come on board, lest they should steal something
belonging to the ship. He further told me that he was on watch, and
should continue on deck two hours. That he was forced to take a turn of
watching the ship every night, for two hours; but that his turn would
not come the next night until after midnight.
I now begged him to enable me to secrete myself on board the ship,
previous to the time of her sailing, so that I might be conveyed to
Philadelphia, whither the ship was bound with her load of cotton. He at
first received my application with great coldness, and said he would not
do any thing contrary to the orders of the captain; but before we
parted, he said he should be glad to assist me if he could, but that the
execution of the plan proposed by me, would be attended with great
dangers, if not ruin.
In my situation there was nothing too hazardous for me to undertake, and
I informed him that if he would let me hide myself in the hold of the
ship, amongst the bags of cotton, no one should ever know that he had
any knowledge of the fact; and that all the danger, and all the
disasters that might attend the affair, should fall exclusively on me.
He finally told me to go away, and that he would think of the matter
until the next day.
It was obvious that his heart was softened in my favor; that his
feelings of compassion almost impelled him to do an act in my behalf,
that was forbidden by his judgment, and his sense of duty to his
employers. As the houses of the city were now closed, and I was a
stranger in the place, I went to a wagon that stood in front of the
warehouse, and had been unladen of the cotton that had been brought in
it, and creeping into it, made my bed with the driver, who permitted me
to share his lodgings amongst some corn tops that he had brought to feed
his oxen.
When the morning came, I went again to the ship, and when the people
came on deck, asked them for the captain, whom I should not have known
by his dress, which was very nearly similar to that of the sailors. On
being asked if he did not wish to hire a hand, to help to load his ship,
he told me I might go to work amongst the men, if I chose, and he would
pay me what I was worth.
My object was to procure employment on board the ship, and not to get
wages; and in the course of this day I found means to enter the hold of
the ship several times, and examine it minutely. The black sailor
promised that he would not betray me, and that if I could find the means
of escaping on board the ship he would not disclose it.
At the end of three days, the ship had taken in her loading, and the
captain said in my presence that he intended to sail the day after. No
time was now to be lost, and asking the captain what he thought I had
earned, he gave me three dollars, which was certainly very liberal pay,
considering that during the whole time that I had worked for him my fare
had been the same as that of the sailors, who had as much as they could
consume of excellent food.
The sailors were now busy in trimming the ship and making ready for sea,
and observing that this work required them to spend much time in the
hold of the ship, I went to the captain and told him, that as he had
paid me good wages and treated me well, I would work with his people the
residue of this day, for my victuals and half a gallon of molasses;
which he said he would give me. My first object now, was to get into the
hold of the ship with those who were adjusting the cargo. The first time
the men below called for aid, I went to them, and being there, took care
to remain with them. Being placed at one side of the hold, for the
purpose of packing the bags close to the ship's timbers, I so managed as
to leave a space between two of the bags, large enough for a man to
creep in and conceal himself. This cavity was near the opening in the
centre of the hold, that was left to let men get down, to stow away the
last of the bags that were put in. In this small hollow retreat among
the bags of cotton, I determined to take my passage to Philadelphia, if
by any means I could succeed in stealing on board the ship at night.
When the evening came, I went to a store near the wharf, and bought two
jugs, one that held half a gallon, and the other, a large stone jug,
holding more than three gallons. When it was dark I filled my large jug
with water; purchased twenty pounds of pilot bread at a bakery, which I
tied in a large handkerchief; and taking my jugs in my hand, went on
board the ship to receive my molasses of the captain, for the labor of
the day. The captain was not on board, and a boy gave me the molasses;
but, under pretence of waiting to see the captain, I sat down between
two rows of cotton bales that were stowed on deck. The night was very
dark, and, watching a favorable opportunity, when the man on deck had
gone forward, I succeeded in placing both my jugs upon the bags of
cotton that rose in the hold, almost to the deck. In another moment I
glided down amongst the cargo, and lost no time in placing my jugs in
the place provided for them, amongst the bales of cotton, beside the
lair provided for myself.
Soon after I had taken my station for the voyage, the captain came on
board, and the boy reported to him that he had paid me off, and
dismissed me. In a short time, all was quiet on board the ship, except
the occasional tread of the man on watch. I slept none at all this
night; the anxiety that oppressed me preventing me from taking any
repose.
Before day the captain was on deck, and gave orders to the seamen to
clear the ship for sailing, and to be ready to descend the river with
the ebb tide, which was expected to flow at sunrise. I felt the motion
of the ship when she got under weigh, and thought the time long before I
heard the breakers of the ocean surging against her sides.
In the place where I lay, when the hatches were closed, total darkness
prevailed; and I had no idea of the lapse of time, or of the progress we
made, until, having at one period crept out into the open space, between
the rows of cotton bags, which I have before described, I heard a man,
who appeared from the sound of his voice to be standing on the hatch,
call out and say, "That is Cape Hatteras." I had already come out of my
covert several times into the open space; but the hatches were closed so
tightly, as to exclude all light. It appeared to me that we had already
been at sea a long time; but as darkness was unbroken with me, I could
not make any computation of periods.
Soon after this, the hatch was opened, and the light was let into the
hold. A man descended for the purpose of examining the state of the
cargo; who returned in a short time. The hatch was again closed, and
nothing of moment occurred from this time, until I heard and felt the
ship strike against some solid body. In a short time I heard much noise,
and a multitude of sounds of various kinds. All this satisfied me that
the ship was in some port; for I no longer heard the sound of the waves,
nor perceived the least motion in the ship.
At length the hatch was again opened, and the light was let in upon me.
My anxiety now was, to escape from the ship, without being discovered by
any one; to accomplish which I determined to issue from the hold as soon
as night came on, if possible. Waiting until sometime after daylight had
disappeared, I ventured to creep to the hatchway, and raise my head
above deck. Seeing no one on board, I crawled out of the hold, and
stepped on board a ship that lay alongside of that in which I had come a
passenger. Here a man seized me, and called me a thief, saying I had
come to rob his ship; and it was with much difficulty that I prevailed
upon him to let me go. He at length permitted me to go on the wharf; and
I once more felt myself a freeman.
I did not know what city I was in; but as the sailors had all told me,
at Savannah, that their ship was bound to Philadelphia, I had no doubt
of being in that city. In going along the street, a black man met me,
and I asked him if I was in Philadelphia.--This question caused the
stranger to laugh loudly; and he passed on without giving me any answer.
Soon afterwards I met an old gentleman, with drab clothes on, as I could
see by the light of the lamps. To him I propounded the same question,
that had been addressed a few moments before to the black man. This
time, however, I received a civil answer, being told that I was in
Philadelphia.
This gentleman seemed concerned for me, either because of my wretched
and ragged appearance, or because I was a stranger, and did not know
where I was. Whether for one cause or the other, I knew not; but he told
me to follow him, and led me to the house of a black man, not far off,
whom he directed to take care of me until the morning. In this house I
was kindly entertained all night, and when the morning came, the old
gentleman in drab clothes returned, and brought with him an entire suit
of clothes, not more than half worn, of which he made me a present, and
gave me money to buy a hat and some muslin for a couple of shirts. He
then turned to go away, and said, "I perceive that thee is a slave, and
has run away from thy master. Thee can now go to work for thy living;
but take care that they do not catch thee again." I then told him, that
I had been a slave, and had twice run away and escaped from the State
of Georgia. The gentleman seemed a little incredulous of that which I
told him; but when I explained to him the cause of the condition in
which he found me, he seemed to become more than ever interested in my
fate. This gentleman, whose name I shall not publish, has always been a
kind friend to me.
After remaining in Philadelphia a few weeks, I resolved to return to my
little farm in Maryland, for the purpose of selling my property for as
much as it would produce, and of bringing my wife and children to
Pennsylvania.
On arriving in Baltimore, I went to a tavern keeper, whom I had formerly
supplied with vegetables from my garden. This man appeared greatly
surprised to see me; and asked me how I had managed to escape from my
master in Georgia. I told him, that the man who had taken me to Georgia
was not my master; but had kidnapped me, and carried me away by
violence. The tavern keeper then told me, that I had better leave
Baltimore as soon as possible, and showed me a hand-bill that was stuck
up against the wall of his bar-room, in which a hundred and fifty
dollars reward was offered for my apprehension. I immediately left this
house, and fled from Baltimore that very night.
When I reached my former residence, I found a white man living in it,
whom I did not know. This man, on being questioned by me, as to the
time he had owned this place, and the manner in which he had obtained
possession, informed me, that a black man had formerly lived here; but
he was a runaway slave, and his master had come, the summer before, and
carried him off. That the wife of the former owner of the house was also
a slave; and that her master had come about six weeks before the present
time, and taken her and her children, and sold them in Baltimore to a
slave-dealer from the South.
This man also informed me, that he was not in this neighborhood at the
time the woman and her children were carried away; but that he had
received his information from a black woman, who lived half a mile off.
This black woman I was well acquainted with; she had been my neighbor,
and I knew her to be my friend. She had been set free, some years before
by a gentleman of this neighborhood, and resided under his protection,
on a part of his land, I immediately went to the house of this woman,
who could scarcely believe the evidence of her own eyes, when she saw me
enter her door. The first word's she spoke to me were, "Lucy and her
children have all been stolen away." At my request, she gave me the
following account of the manner in which my wife and children, all of
whom had been free from their birth, were seized and driven into
southern slavery.
"A few weeks," said she, "after they took you away, and before Lucy had
so far recovered from the terror produced by that event, as to remain in
her house all night with her children, without some other company, I
went one evening to stay all night with her; a kindness that I always
rendered her, if no other person came to remain with her.
"It was late when we went to bed, perhaps eleven o'clock; and after we
had been asleep some time, we were awakened by a loud rap at the door.
At first we said nothing; but upon the rap being several times repeated,
Lucy asked who was there. She was then told, in a voice that seemed by
its sound to be that of a woman, to get up and open the door; adding,
that the person without had something to tell her that she wished to
hear. Lucy, supposing the voice to be that of a black woman, the slave
of a lady living near, rose and opened the door; but, to our
astonishment, instead of a woman coming in, four or five men rushed into
the house and immediately closed the door; at which one of the men
stood, with his back against it, until the others made a light in the
fire-place, and proceeded deliberately to tie Lucy with a rope.--Search
was then made in the bed for the children; and I was found and dragged
out. This seemed to produce some consternation among the captors, whose
faces were all black, but whose hair and visages were those of white
men. A consultation was held among them, the object of which was to
determine whether I should also be taken along with Lucy and the
children, or be left behind, on account of the interest which my master
was supposed to feel for me.
"It was finally agreed, that as it would be very dangerous to carry me
off, lest my old master should cause pursuit to be made after them, they
would leave me behind, and take only Lucy and the children. One of the
number then said it would not do to leave me behind, and at liberty, as
I would immediately go and give intelligence of what I had seen; and if
the affair should be discovered by the members of the abolition society,
before they had time to get out of Maryland, they would certainly be
detected and punished for the crimes they were committing.
"It was finally resolved to tie me with cords, to one of the logs of the
house, gag me by tying a rope in my mouth, and confining it closely to
the back of my neck. They immediately confined me, and then took the
children from the bed. The oldest boy they tied to his mother, and
compelled them to go out of the house together. The three youngest
children were then taken out of bed, and carried off in the hands of the
men who had tied me to the log. I never saw nor heard any more of Lucy
or her children.
"For myself, I remained in the house, the door of which was carefully
closed and fastened after it was shut, until the second night after my
confinement, without anything to eat or drink. On the second night some
unknown persons came and cut the cords that bound me, when I returned to
my own cabin."
This intelligence almost deprived me of life; it was the most dreadful
of all the misfortunes that I had ever suffered. It was now clear that
some slave-dealer had come in my absence and seized my wife and children
as slaves, and sold them to such men as I had served in the South. They
had now passed into hopeless bondage, and were gone forever beyond my
reach. I myself was advertised as a fugitive slave, and was liable to be
arrested at each moment, and dragged back to Georgia. I rushed out of my
own house in despair and returned to Pennsylvania with a broken heart.
For the last few years, I have resided about fifty miles from
Philadelphia, where I expect to pass the evening of my life, in working
hard for my subsistence, without the least hope of ever again seeing my
wife and children;--fearful, at this day, to let my place of residence
be known, lest even yet it may be supposed, that as an article of
property, I am of sufficient value to be worth pursuing in my old age.
THE END.
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[Transcriber's Notes:
The transcriber made these changes to the text to correct obvious
errors:
p. 18 burthersome --> burthensome
p. 18 aristocrary -->aristocracy
p. 23 vetebræ --> vertebræ
p. 24 charnal --> charnel
p. 91 aad --> and
p. 98 jair --> jail
p. 122 successsion --> succession
p. 122 liven --> linen
p. 152 of errands --> on errands
p. 192 corspe --> corpse
p. 211 disagreeble --> disagreeable
p. 230 guitly --> quilty
p. 244 thives --> thrives
p. 249 stool --> stood
p. 252 rearch --> reach
p. 267 pototoes --> potatoes
p. 386 "Charles.' --> "Charles."
End of Transcriber's Notes]