and I was ever exposed to their howling rage and devouring fury in all the islands.  I have seen them strike and toss a boat right up an end, and maim several on board.  Once in the Grenada islands, when I and about eight others were pulling a large boat with two puncheons of water in it, a surf struck us, and drove the boat and all in it about half a stone’s throw, among some trees, and above the high water mark.  We were obliged to get all the assistance we could from the nearest estate to mend the boat, and launch it into the water again.  At Montserrat one night, in pressing hard to get off the shore on board, the punt was overset with us four times; the first time I was very near being drowned; however the jacket I had on kept me up above water a little space of time, while I called on a man near me who was a good swimmer, and told him I could not swim; he then made haste to me, and, just as I was sinking, he caught hold of me, and brought me to sounding, and then he went and brought the punt also.  As soon as we had turned the water out of her, lest we should be used ill for being absent, we attempted again three times more, and as often the horrid surfs served us as at first; but at last, the fifth time we attempted, we gained our point, at the imminent hazard of our lives.  One day also, at Old Road in Montserrat, our captain, and three men besides myself, were going in a large canoe in quest of rum and sugar, when a single surf tossed the canoe an amazing distance from the water, and some of us even a stone’s throw from each other:  most of us were very much bruised; so that I and many more often said, and really thought, that there was not such another place under the heavens as this.  I longed therefore much to leave it, and daily wished to see my master’s promise performed of going to Philadelphia.  While we lay in this place a very cruel thing happened on board of our sloop which filled me with horror; though I found afterwards such practices were frequent.  There was a very clever and decent free young mulatto-man who sailed a long time with us:  he had a free woman for his wife, by whom he had a child; and she was then living on shore, and all very happy.  Our captain and mate, and other people on board, and several elsewhere, even the natives of Bermudas, all knew this young man from a child that he was always free, and no one had ever claimed him as their property:  however, as might too often overcomes right in these parts, it happened that a Bermudas captain, whose vessel lay there for a few days in the road, came on board of us, and seeing the mulatto-man, whose name was Joseph Clipson, he told him he was not free, and that he had orders from his master to bring him to Bermudas.  The poor man could not believe the captain to be in earnest; but he was very soon undeceived, his men laying violent hands on him:  and although he shewed a certificate of his being born free in St. Kitt’s, and most people on board knew that he served his time to boat building, and always passed