more for Montserrat, and arrived there safe; but much out of humour with our friend the silversmith.  When we had unladen the vessel, and I had sold my venture, finding myself master of about forty-seven pounds, I consulted my true friend, the Captain, how I should proceed in offering my master the money for my freedom.  He told me to come on a certain morning, when he and my master would be at breakfast together.  Accordingly, on that morning I went, and met the Captain there, as he had appointed.  When I went in I made my obeisance to my master, and with my money in my hand, and many fears in my heart, I prayed him to be as good as his offer to me, when he was pleased to promise me my freedom as soon as I could purchase it.  This speech seemed to confound him; he began to recoil:  and my heart that instant sunk within me.  ‘What,’ said he, ’give you your freedom?  Why, where did you get the money?  Have you got forty pounds sterling?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I answered.  ‘How did you get it?’ replied he.  I told him, very honestly.  The Captain then said he knew I got the money very honestly and with much industry, and that I was particularly careful.  On which my master replied, I got money much faster than he did; and said he would not have made me the promise he did if he had thought I should have got money so soon.  ‘Come, come,’ said my worthy Captain, clapping my master on the back, ’Come, Robert, (which was his name) I think you must let him have his freedom; you have laid your money out very well; you have received good interest for it all this time, and here is now the principal at last.  I know Gustavus has earned you more than an hundred a-year, and he will still save you money, as he will not leave you:—­Come, Robert, take the money.’  My master then said, he would not be worse than his promise; and, taking the money, told me to go to the Secretary at the Register Office, and get my manumission drawn up.  These words of my master were like a voice from heaven to me:  in an instant all my trepidation was turned into unutterable bliss; and I most reverently bowed myself with gratitude, unable to express my feelings, but by the overflowing of my eyes, while my true and worthy friend, the Captain, congratulated us both with a peculiar degree of heartfelt pleasure.  As soon as the first transports of my joy were over, and that I had expressed my thanks to these my worthy friends in the best manner I was able, I rose with a heart full of affection and reverence, and left the room, in order to obey my master’s joyful mandate of going to the Register Office.  As I was leaving the house I called to mind the words of the Psalmist, in the 126th Psalm, and like him, ’I glorified God in my heart, in whom I trusted.’  These words had been impressed on my mind from the very day I was forced from Deptford to the present hour, and I now saw them, as I thought, fulfilled and verified.  My imagination was all rapture as I flew to the Register Office, and, in this respect,