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APRIL 20.

Our Captain told me that, tow or three years ago, whilst his vessel eas lying in Black River, for the purpose of loading, a negro contrived to secrete himself in the lower part of it, where the sugar hogsheads are stored, unknown to anyone. As soon as the carg was completed, the planks above it were caulked down, and raised no more till their ship reached Liverpool;

when, to the universal astonishment, upon opening the hold, out walked Mungo, in a wretched condition to be sure, but still at least alive, and a freeman in Great Britain. During his painful voyage he had subsisted entirely upon sugar, of which he had consumed nearly a hogshead; how he managed for water I could not learn, nor can imagine.