rved him four or five years; * *
* a mulatto, named Francesco, the cabin steward, of a good person
and voice, having sung in the Valparaiso churches, native of the
province of Buenos Ayres, aged about thirty-five years. * * * A
smart negro, named Dago, who had been for many years a
grave-digger among the Spaniards, aged forty-six years. * * * Four
old negroes, born in Africa, from sixty to seventy, but sound,
calkers by trade, whose names are as follows:--the first was named
Muri, and he was killed (as was also his son named Diamelo); the
second, Nacta; the third, Yola, likewise killed; the fourth,
Ghofan; and six full-grown negroes, aged from thirty to
forty-five, all raw, and born among the Ashantees--Matiluqui, Yan,
Leche, Mapenda, Yambaio, Akim; four of whom were killed; * * * a
powerful negro named Atufal, who being supposed to have been a
chief in Africa, his owner set great store by him. * * * And a
small negro of Senegal, but some years among the Spaniards, aged
about thirty, which negro's name was Babo; * * * that he does not
remember the names of the others, but that still expecting the
residue of Don Alexandra's papers will be found, will then take
due account of them all, and remit to the court; * * * and
thirty-nine women and children of all ages.

[_The catalogue over, the deposition goes on_]

* * * That all the negroes slept upon deck, as is customary in
this navigation, and none wore fetters, because the owner, his
friend Aranda, told him that they were all tractable; * * * that
on the seventh day after leaving port, at three o'clock in the
morning, all the Spaniards being asleep except the two officers on
the watch, who were the boatswain, Juan Robles, and the carpenter,
Juan Bautista Gayete, and the helmsman and his boy, the negroes
revolted suddenly, wounded dangerously the boatswain and the
carpenter, and successively killed eighteen men of those who were
sleeping upon deck, some with hand-spikes and hatchets, and others
by throwing them alive overboard, after tying them; that of the
Spaniards upon deck, they left about seven, as he thinks, alive
and tied, to manoeuvre the ship, and three or four more, who hid
themselves, remained also alive. Although in the act of revolt the
negroes made themselves masters of the hatchway, six or seven
wounded went th