144 Adams’s ill-treatment.—Death of the Mate. [Notes 52,53.
confident that the further prosecution of this inquiry could
lead to any satisfactory conclusion ; for whatever suspicion
it might tend to throw on Amadi Fatouma’s statement of
the time, place, and circumstances of Park's lamented death,
it could not, we fear, justify a reasonable doubt, at this
distant period, of the actual occurrence, in some mode or
other, of the melancholy event itself.
Note 52, p. 73.
I heard from several other persons of the ill-treatment
which Adams received from Hameda-Bel-Cossim, his
master’s son; and the Moors who visited Wed-Noon
corroborated the account of his unshaken resolution, and
of the punishment which he suffered in consequence-offit,
having been put in irons and in prison. D.
Note 53, p. 73.
I have no reason to doubt the truth of the circumstances
here related by Adams respecting Stephen Dolbie, except
as to the fact of his dying in consequence of a wound given
by Brahim. Other accounts stated that he died at Wed-
Noon of a fever only, the effects of a cold contracted by
gathering in the harvest during heavy rain: and this, as
far as I can recollect, was the account which Adams gave
Note 54. J Christian Slaves. 145
me at Mogadore. I remember that he told me he had
assisted at Dolbie’s interment, and that he had afterwards
covered the grave with stones. D.
Note 54, p. 74.
I can easily believe Adams’s statement of the brutal
treatment he experienced at Wed-Noon. It is consistent
with the accounts I have always heard of the people of that
country, who I believe to be more bigotted and- cruel than
even the remoter inhabitants of the Desert. The three
men of the Charles’s crew already mentioned, complained
vehemently of the miseries they had suffered, though they
had been but a comparatively short time in slavery; and
one of them shewed me a scar upon his breast, which
he told me was the mark of a wound given him by one of
the Arabs.
In the frequent instances which have come under my
observation, the general effect of the treatment of the Arabs
on the minds of the Christian captives has been most
deplorable. On the first arrival of these-unfortunate men
at Mogadore, if they have been any considerable time in
slavery, they appear lost to reason and feeling, their spirits
broken, and their faculties sunk in a species of stupor
which I am unable adequately to describe. Habited like
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