A. I do not recollect that I signed it.

Q. Is your bond discharged?

A. Yes, I produced this copy at Bristol, to have it discharged.

Q. Why did not the cause of the death of the negro girl appear in your journal?

A. The apprehensions I had for my own safety, while I sailed with the prisoner, prevented me from relating it.

Q. Is it from disclosing a barbarous murder?

A. Yes; because the prisoner and I had often quarrelled, and I might have been judged an improper evidence against him.

Q. At what place did you quarrel?

A. At the river of Calabar.