and of whom they expected a good price, as they knew it was his duty to redeem all the European captives that should fall into their hands. That he had done all in his power to persuade his master to purchase me, to prevent our seperation, but without any success; his master informing him that my master could not be persuaded to part with me, as he well knew that the English Consul⚫ would pay double price for the redemption of a female captive; that he then by signs gave him to understand that the female captive was his wife, and that the Consul would be willing to give him four times the sum for their redemption of both together (that they might be each other's company to their own country) than he would to be obliged to redeem them seperately at different periods: but his master could not be persuaded either to purchase me ⚫ or to part with him. Here my poor husband concluded by observing, that as I was used with less severity by the natives than any of the other captives, he hoped that I should be so fortunate as once more to gain my liberty, by the intercession of some friend who might hear of my captivity; but as for himself, he had become so extremely feeble, in consequence of the treatment which he met with from the natives, that he despaired of living to regain his liberty. I begged of him not to despair while life remained--that if he put his trust in God, he would be his friend, and not forsake him, but in his own good time restore us all to our liberty and to our friends; that it might prove