... so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". Sometimes, the height between decks was only eighteen inches, so that the unfortunate beings could ... stages of fury and desperation, struggling to extricate themselves. Men strangled those next them, and women drove nails into each other's brains. Many unfortunate creatures took the first opportunity of leaping overboard, thereby escaping from this intolerable ... and his fear that the European slavers would eat him. "Their complexions, differing so much from ours, ...

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