ny--the chief giving him to understand that it was the intention of our masters to retain us as slaves until an opportunity should present to dispose of us to some of their countrymen bound to the Moorish dominions,⚫ where a high price would be paid for us by the Sultan's friend (British Consul) that he had tried to prevail on him to purchase me, and to convey us both to Morocco (or Marokish as the Arabs term it) where he assured him we had friends who would pay a handsome price for us! but without any success--his master assuring him that my master could not be prevailed upon to part with me, for all the property he was worth, and that he would not engage to convey him (my husband) to Marockish for the price of his life; as he should have to pass through many tribes with whom they were at war--"thus my dear wife, concluded my husband, you see that the prospect of our speedy redemption is very small, and I am confident that if our captivity continues a month longer, and we are not treated with more lenity, not one of us will be found alive, for every one of my unfortunate fellow captives are if possible, in a more deplorable situation than myself."

Such indeed as had been represented by my husband, was the situation of those victims of misfortune! overwhelmed with fatigue, unable to obtain repose, tormented with hunger, and consigned, without any human assistance, into the hands of merciless barbarians. These ferocious monsters