negroes to be caught. Murra Brimer told the witness, that if the Governor of Sierra Leone would give him a thousand bars, (equal to S.1000), he would render up the slaves; but not without, as Murra Brimer declared they were his slaves.
Bondoo was sworn on the Old Testament. The prisoner gave him as a slave to Santera; he made his escape; he was sold by the prisoner as a slave; he was delivered by the prisoner at Bance island to Santera, who took him to Port Logo, together with his wife and two children, who were delivered at the same time by the prisoner at the bar. They were sent off in a canoe about four months ago; they were sold by the prisoner as slaves, who made the black people work as slaves, and flogged them; he had beaten the witness; he saw many at Port Logo who were sold by the prisoner, many of whom the witness named; they were sold as slaves.
Monday was sworn on the New Testament and on the earth. She saw the prisoner give four slaves to Murra Brimer, and four to Dallamoodoo, at the town of Sery, for catching the runaways. A Boolam man also got four slaves: he lives at Sery; they were all to be treated as slaves; it was four months since they were delivered $ the witness did not know whether slaves were disposed of before they ran away from Tasso. The prisoner sent a woman slave, named Cainbosco, to the Soosoo country, and received a bill in pay for her. She has heard the. prisoner say he had sold slaves for rice; he said he would sell whom he pleased of the Tasso people; he threatened to sell her, and had beaten her.
Quiepa knelt down and kissed the earth, and was thus sworn to tell the truth. He knew the prisoner had sent slaves from Tasso; he saw him sell one slave for three goats, three sheep, one bull, and a ton of salt; the prisoner sold a yellow girl to Dallamoodoo; Duboo brought the girl
