e indebted to one who daily
visited them, for the information of their behavior from that period
until that of their execution; which, as regarded the former, I was
informed was extremely impenitent--that while proceeding to the
place of ignominy and death, he talked with shocking unconcern,
hinting that by being instrumental in the destruction of so many
lives, he had become too hardened and familiar with death to feel
much intimidated at its approach! He was attended to the place of
execution by a Roman Catholic Priest, who it was said labored to
convince him of the atrociousness of his crimes, but he seemed deaf
to all admonition or exhortation, and appeared insensible to the
hope of happiness or fear of torment in a future state--and so far
from exhibiting a single symptom of penitence, declared that he knew
of but one thing for which he had cause to reproach himself, which
was in sparing my life and not ordering me to be butchered as the
others had been! How awful was the end of the life of this miserable
criminal! He looked not with harmony, regard, or a single penitent
feeling toward one human being in the last agonies of an ignominious
death.

After remaining nine days at Jamaica, I was so fortunate as to
obtain a passage with Capt. Ellsmore, direct for St. Johns--the
thoughts of once more returning home and of so soon joining my
anxious friends, when I could have an opportunity to communicate to
my aged parents, to a beloved sister and a large circle of
acquaintances, the sad tale of the misfortunes which had attended me
since I bid them adieu, would have been productive of the most
pleasing sensations, had they not been interrupted by the melancholy
reflection that I was the bearer of tidings of the most
heart-rending nature, to the bereaved families of those unfortunate
husbands and parents who had in my presence fallen victims to
Piratical barbarity. Thankful should I have been had the distressing
duty fell to the lot of some one of less sensibility--but, unerring
Providence had ordered otherwise. We arrived safe at our port of
destination after a somewhat boisterous passage of 18 days. I found
my friends all well, but the effects produced on their minds by the
relation of the distressing incidents and adverse fortune that had
attended me since my departure, I shall