stay here, where I am free, than go back to my country to be sold.  I shall stay in England as long as (please God) I shall live.  I wish the King of England could know all I have told you.  I wish it that he may see how cruelly we are used.  We had no king in our country, or he would have stopt it.  I think the king of England might stop it, and this is why I wish him to know it all.  I have heard say he is good; and if he is, he will stop it if he can.  I am well off myself, for I am well taken care of, and have good bed and good clothes; but I wish my own people to be as comfortable.”

“LOUIS ASA-ASA.”

“London, January 31, 1831.”