f a future state; that they have a
confused notion of several powers, good and evil, but these are
ruled by one supreme being called Holloloo. This account of the
religion of Daaga was confirmed by the military chaplain who
attended him in his last moments. He also informed me that he
believed in predestination;--at least he said that Holloloo, he
knew, had ordained that he should come to white man's country and be
shot.

'Daaga, having made a successful predatory expedition into the
country of the Yarrabas, returned with a number of prisoners of that
nation. These he, as usual, took, bound and guarded, towards the
coast to sell to the Portuguese. The interpreter, his countryman,
called these Portuguese white gentlemen. The white gentlemen proved
themselves more than a match for the black gentlemen; and the whole
transaction between the Portuguese and Paupaus does credit to all
concerned in this gentlemanly traffic in human flesh.

'Daaga sold his prisoners; and under pretence of paying him, he and
his Paupau guards were enticed on board a Portuguese vessel;--they
were treacherously overpowered by the Christians, who bound them
beside their late prisoners, and the vessel sailed over "the great
salt water."

'This transaction caused in the breast of the savage a deep hatred
against all white men--a hatred so intense that he frequently,
during and subsequent to the mutiny, declared he would eat the first
white man he killed; yet this cannibal was made to swear allegiance
to our Sovereign on the Holy Evangelists, and was then called a
British soldier.

'On the voyage the vessel on board which Daaga had been entrapped
was captured by the British. He could not comprehend that his new
captors liberated him: he had been over reached and trepanned by
one set of white men, and he naturally looked on his second captors
as more successful rivals in the human, or rather inhuman, Guinea
trade; therefore this event lessened not his hatred for white men in
the abstract.

'I was informed by several of the Africans who came with him that
when, during the voyage, they upbraided Daaga with being the cause
of their capture, he pacified them by promising that when they
should arrive in white man's country, he would repay their perfidy
by attacking them in the night. He further promised that if the
Paupaus and the Yarrabas would follow him, he would fight his way
back to Guinea. This accoun