be
absent fishing, the six Ashantees, without any one else, would
easily take it; that at this time he said other things to the same
purpose; that no entreaties availed; that, before Amasa Delano's
coming on board, no hint had been given touching the capture of
the American ship: that to prevent this project the deponent was
powerless; * * *--that in some things his memory is confused, he
cannot distinctly recall every event; * * *--that as soon as they
had cast anchor at six of the clock in the evening, as has before
been stated, the American Captain took leave, to return to his
vessel; that upon a sudden impulse, which the deponent believes to
have come from God and his angels, he, after the farewell had been
said, followed the generous Captain Amasa Delano as far as the
gunwale, where he stayed, under pretense of taking leave, until
Amasa Delano should have been seated in his boat; that on shoving
off, the deponent sprang from the gunwale into the boat, and fell
into it, he knows not how, God guarding him; that--

* * * * *

[_Here, in the original, follows the account of what further
happened at the escape, and how the San Dominick was retaken, and
of the passage to the coast; including in the recital many
expressions of "eternal gratitude" to the "generous Captain Amasa
Delano." The deposition then proceeds with recapitulatory remarks,
and a partial renumeration of the negroes, making record of their
individual part in the past events, with a view to furnishing,
according to command of the court, the data whereon to found the
criminal sentences to be pronounced. From this portion is the
following_;]

--That he believes that all the negroes, though not in the first
place knowing to the design of revolt, when it was accomplished,
approved it. * * * That the negro, Jose, eighteen years old, and
in the personal service of Don Alexandro, was the one who
communicated the information to the negro Babo, about the state of
things in the cabin, before the revolt; that this is known,
because, in the preceding midnight, he use to come from his berth,
which was under his master's, in the cabin, to the deck where the
ringleader and his associates were, and had secret conversations
with the negro Babo, in which he was several times seen by the
mate;