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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Memoirs of the late Captain Hugh Crow, of Liverpool; comprising a Narrative of his Life, together with descriptive Sketches of the Western Coast of Africa, &c. &c. 8vo. pp. 316. London, 1830, Longman and Co.; Liverpool, G. and J. Robinson. THE gallant Captain Hugh Crow, whose portrait, with a cock in his right eye, (lithographed by William Crane, and of course a bird's-eye view,) and a telescope in his right hand, does honour to this volume, by standing frontispiece in stone, is neither related to the equestrian Du-Crow, nor to the Margate navigator, the renowned Captain Crow, celebrated by Peter Pindar for insisting on his passengers being sea-sick, with all the privileges of that disorder. On the contrary, he is, or rather was, himself alone, a right-earnest, unflinching, though considerate and humane, slave trader; one of the most successful from the port of Liverpool and his executors have published these his memoirs, to shew that the devil is not so black as he is painted, nor the traffic in negroes so very horrible as it is represented.

To be sure we are startled a trifle by the bold propositions here advanced; but when we go into the details, we are forced to own that there is no cause upon which something may not be said on both sides. Indeed, Captain Crow, to use a common saying, has taken the bull by the horns; and those who are influenced by his statements and arguments will be apt to think that British humanity might be as well employed in alleviating the distress of the suffering lower orders, the starving peasantry and mechanics at home, as in roaming to the best of Africa in quest of objects on which to expend the laudable feelings of philanthropy. JE may be urged, that both are entitled to Christian sympathy and relief: but again the reply is, the greater charity lies at your own door and before your own eyes; perform what it demands, and then let your spirit of universal benevolence pervade the earth, from Indas to the pole. But, remember, your duty s to attend to your poor neighbours, to your parish paupers, to your ill-clothed, ill-warmed, ill-fed countrymen, first; watch and witness the comfort you can administer to them, and allot, If your conscience dictates it, any surplus proportion of your wealth to alleviate the reEster miseries of mankind.

parliament. Previous to his engaging on the|
African coast and the West Indies, he per-
formed some voyages to the north seas and
elsewhere, the perils attendant upon which re-
mind us of the striking stories of our elder
sailors in their little venturous barks. But
we leave these, and commence our quotations
with a Transatlantic anecdote.

In a voyage to Memel, in 1785, we have the following description of a curious piscatory

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Our author's principal port for slaving was Bonny; and his accounts of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, even after all that has since been published about the Africans, are often extremely characteristic. For instance:

"While at Bonny a distressing ceremony took place, which occasioned some delay in the "That the credulity of some of the Ameri- shipment of our cargo. It was the custom cans is equal to that of any other nation, the there, once in seven years, to sacrifice a virgin, following fact will exemplify. One night, in of fifteen or sixteen years of age, as a propitiathe house of a respectable person in Charleston, tory offering to Boreas, the god of the north I overheard a conversation relative to my native wind. For some weeks previous to the sacriisland, to which I naturally paid every atten- fice, the female selected is led through the tion. One of the speakers expressed his assur- town, attended by numbers of priests, visiting ance that the Isle of Man turned right round every house, rich and poor, and whatever she every seven years; and that unless a fire were fancies is immediately granted her. When the kept burning in it night and day, it would cer- poor creature is satisfied with her booty, and tainly sink! This relation excited much won-(strange infatuation!) expresses her willingder and amazement amongst the company, and ness to die, she is placed, with all the articles I was not a little amused to find so romantic she has collected, into a large canoe, and taken an idea of my native land entertained in a to a place about twenty miles from the town, foreign country." where, together with her booty, she is thrown into the sea by the priests, and is instantly devoured by the sharks. While the preparations for a repetition of this sacrifice were going on, I made repeated endeavours to persuade the great men and priests to abandon their cruel intention; but, unhappily, my expostulations were in vain, and another young woman was added to the list of those who had fallen victims to the ignorance and superstition of their tribe. The painful impression made on my mind by this barbarous ceremony was yet fresh, when a Quaw chief, being taken in battle, was sent from the interior to King Pepple, and the great men at Bonny, to be eaten at a grand feast. In this instance, too, I did my utmost to dissuade the king and the priests from their horrible purpose, and I offered them the price of three slaves to save the life of the captive, who was a fine-looking man. Neither arguments nor money, however, could avert his fate. He was put to death; and those who had feasted on his body, afterwards boasted of the delicious treat they had enjoyed.

"One morning during a calm, when near the Hebrides, all hands were called up at three in the morning to witness a battle between several of the fish called thrashers and some sword-fish on one side, and an enormous whale on the other. It was in the middle of summer, and the weather being clear, and the fish close to the vessel, we had a fine opportunity of witnessing the contest. As soon as the whale's back appeared above the water, the thrashers springing several yards into the air, descended with great violence upon the object of their rancour, and inflicted upon him the most severe slaps with their tails, the sound of which resembled the reports of muskets fired at a distance. The sword-fish, in their turn, attacked the distressed whale, stabbing him from below; and thus beset on all sides and wounded, when the poor creature appeared, the water around him was dyed with blood. In this manner they continued tormenting and wounding him for many hours, until we lost sight of him; and I have no doubt they, in the end, accomplished his destruction."

We must now skip twelve years. Sailing from Dominica to England, the captain relates a little nigger tale.

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"During my stay at Bonny on this trip, a dreadful catastrophe took place in the harbour. Amongst twelve or fourteen sail of vessels that lay in the river, was the ship Bolton, of Liverpool. She had on board about a hundred and twenty negroes; and these men, not being properly guarded, contrived to free themselves in "We had on board a fine black boy, brought the night from their irons, and, rising upon But we are not going to preach the homily from Bonny, named Fine Bone,' about fifteen the officers and crew, they took possession of tims enforced by Captain Crow, and we are years of age. When we got further north, the the ship. Unfortunately, the trade powder, in either obliged to see with his eye nor his tele- cold began to pinch him severely; and being quantity about two hundred barrels, was stowcope. Our affair is to make his volume fairly very fond of me, he one morning came shiver-ed in the fore peak, and to this the insurgents, known; and for this, a few extracts from the ing to the side of my cot, and said, Massa in their rage for mischief, soon found access. adventures it details, and a few more from the Crow, something bite me too much, and me no At daylight, by which time the circumstance pinions it expresses as the result of much can see 'im; and me want you give me some became known, the several masters of the vesexperience in "slaving," will suffice. wash mouth, and two mouth tacken.' I knew sels in the river held a meeting to determine Captain Crow began his career as a sea- that wash mouth' meant a dram; and he how the ship and cargo might be redeemed. by, to rock on the high and giddy mast," soon gave me to understand, by getting hold of The result was, that I and some others were ed to endure more hardships when below; my drawers, what he meant by two mouth appointed to go on board the Bolton, and enbut his good conduct raised him gradually to the tacken.' I furnished the poor fellow with the deavour, if possible, to save the blacks from mand of several fine vessels engaged in the needful, and as he had shoes, stockings, and that destruction to which, in their ignorance, are trade, till his career was closed by act of jacket before, he was quite made up." they were so fearfully exposed. They con

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sisted chiefly of Quaws, a most desperate race taken ill, their attention and care of it were which they afford, we should be as destitute of Before we got on board they had redoubled; and it was truly affecting and in- defence as the Africans themselves. If the brought up many barrels of the gunpowder, teresting to see with what anxiety and tender- pretenders to humanity have a mind to do which they had started and spread all looseness they tended and nursed the little creature. good, let them first begin at home: let them between decks. It would have been madness A struggle frequently ensued amongst them look to Ireland, which is in a most deplorable for any of us to go below amongst them, for a for priority in these offices of affection; and state of slavery and disaffection for which no single spark thrown by one of them amongst some would steal one thing and some another, politician has yet discovered an adequate rethe powder, would have involved us in instant which they would carry to it untasted, how.medy. It may be added, that when the Afri. destruction. We prevailed upon a few Eboes ever tempting it might be to their own palates. can trade was abolished, many fine young men, to leave the vessel; and these, with all the Then they would take it gently up in their being thrown out of employment, entered into women, were taken on board of some of the fore paws, hug it to their breasts, and cry over the American service, and there is no doubt other ships. The Quaws were deaf to all our it as a fond mother would over her suffering were afterwards employed to fight against the entreaties and warnings, until towards even-child. The little creature seemed sensible of country that gave them birth, their prospects ing, when a number of them also gave them- their assiduities; but it was wofully over- at home being entirely blighted. It was on a selves up, observing, probably, the danger to powered by sickness. It would sometimes Sunday morning when I landed at Kingston; which they were exposed. The ringleaders, come to me, and look me pitifully in the face, and and I found a number of my old shipmates however, to the number of about a dozen, ob- moan and cry like an infant, as if it besought (blacks), all neatly dressed, waiting on the stinately remained amongst the loose powder, me to give it relief; and we did every thing wharf to receive me: some of them took hold so that no one had the hardihood to venture we could think of to restore it to health; but of my hands; and the general expressions of amongst them. In this situation they remain-in spite of the united attentions of its kindred welcome and good will were God bless ed until the afternoon of the next day, when tribe and ourselves, the interesting little crea- massa! How massa do dis voyage? we hope we observed the ship to be on fire; and as she ture did not long survive." massa no fight 'gen dis time.' While they was the headmost vessel in the river, we manned With this we shall close our miscellaneous thus congratulated me on my arrival, a wag, all our boats, in order, if possible, to tow her off, quotations, which will shew that there is con- one of their own party, jeeringly exclaimedlest she might fall amongst us. We had been siderable interest and entertainment to be Who be dis Captain Crow you all sabby so but a few minutes in the boats, when, with all found in these pages; and proceed, as we pro- much?' And my black friends replied, What the unfortunate creatures on board of her, she posed, to give two or three extracts relative to dat you say, you black negro? Ebery dog in blew up with a tremendous explosion. I was the slave trade and its abolition, according to Kingston sabby Captain Crow, and you bad in our boat with eight or nine of my best men, the views of Captain Crow, whose last voyage fellow for no sabby him;' with which they fell and only about a hundred yards from her, when was performed just in time to witness the end. a beating him with so little ceremony, that I the catastrophe occurred; and such was the "It had been (he tells us) reported to the was obliged in good nature to interfere. I violence of the shock, that the poor fellows fell chiefs and the natives, by the captains who rather suspect this was a joke contrived among down in the bottom of the boat. The smoke, preceded me, that I commanded the last ship them when they saw me coming on shore ; the pieces of the wreck, the clothes, and other that would sail to Bonny for negroes. My for the blacks have craft and sport sufficient articles of trade, that flew about in every direc-friend King Holiday consequently repaired on for a frolic of the kind. Be this as it may, I tion, presented a scene truly awful. Several of board as soon as we arrived, to inquire if the was not a little gratified by their friendly visit." the latter fell into our boat, and many articles And, in conclusionwere afterwards found blown as far as the town of Bonny. After this misfortune, it became necessary to be more watchful of the blacks, and particularly of the Quaws, who, instigated by the example of their insurgent countrymen, had already begun to exhibit an impatience of restraint."

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intelligence were true. We had, as might be
expected, a long palaver on the subject, in the "As I have in the course of my narrative
course of which the king expressed himself, as made frequent allusions to the unfortunate
nearly as I can remember, in the following slaves, lest my remarks be misconstrued, I owe
terms:- Crow!' he remarked, you and me it to myself here to disclaim being a friend to
sabby each other long time, and me know you slavery. God forbid that I should favour a
tell me true mouth (speak truth); for all cap- system through which my fellow-creatures
tains come to river tell me you king and you should suffer any species of oppression, hard-
big mans stop we trade; and 'spose dat true, ship, or injustice! I consider that the abo-
what we do? for you sabby me have too much litionists have not understood the subject, and
wife, it be we country fash, and have too that their measures have done nothing towards
much child, and some may turn big rogue man, the real abatement of slave-dealing in Africa.
all same time we see some bad white man for They have, in fact, as I have before remarked,
some you ship, and we hear too much white transferred the whole of the trade into the
man grow big rogue for you country. But hands of other nations, who carry it on with
God make you sabby book and make big ship- extreme cruelty. In the course of my re-
den you sen you bad people much far for other marks, I have viewed the abstraction of slaves
country, and we hear you hang much people, from Africa to our colonies as a necessary evil,
and too much man go dead for you warm (war). under existing circumstances. I may be mis-
But God make we black' (here the poor fellow taken on this point; but I am convinced,
shed tears), and we no sabby book, and we nevertheless, from what I have observed, that
no havy head for make ship for sen we bad the negro slaves of the West Indies are gene-
mans for more country; and we law is, 'spose rally happier there than when they lived as
some of we child go bad and we no can sell 'em, slaves in their own country, subject to the
we father must kill dem own child; and 'spose cruelties and caprice of the inland chiefs, and
trade be done, we force kill too much child living in a savage state; and, for my own
same way. But we tink trade no stop, for all part, were slavery to be my lot, I would rather
we Jew-Jew-man' (the priests) tell we so-be a black slave in the West Indies than a
for dem say you country no can niber pass God white one at home; for there is no comparison
A'mighty.' The last words he repeated several between the comforts of the one and those of
times; and the reader, it is presumed, will
find his remarks not altogether destitute of
sense and shrewdness."

"I shall never forget the scene that fol-
lowed the suppression of the flames. When
I got on deck, the blacks, both men and
women, clung round me in tears; some
taking hold of my hands, others of my feet,
and all, with much earnestness and feeling,
thanking Providence for our narrow escape,
-an expression of gratitude in which, I assure
the reader, I heartily joined them. On this
passage, I witnessed a remarkable instance of
animal sagacity and affection. As I before
mentioned, we had several monkeys on board:
they were of different species and sizes; and
amongst them was a beautiful little creature,
the body of which was about ten inches or a
foot in length, and about the circumference of
a common drinking glass. It was of a glossy
black, excepting its nose and the end of its
tail, which were as white as snow. This in-
teresting little animal, which, when I received
the other. Think, for instance, of the poor
it from the governor of the island of St. Thomas,
fishermen during the winter season—some of
diverted me by its innocent gambols, became
the greatest slaves in existence. Think of the
afflicted by the malady which yet unfortunate- At Kingston, whither he went with his cargo, miserable beings employed in our coal-pits,
ly prevailed in the ship. It had always been he adds:-
and in our iron, lead, and copper mines-toiling
a favourite with the other monkeys, who "The consequences of the abolition of the under ground in unwholesome air, which is
seemed to regard it as the last-born, and African trade appeared to me then, and appear constantly liable to fatal explosions! Think
the pet of the family; and they granted it now to be, pernicious not only to individuals, of all the men, women, and children, confined
many indulgences which they seldom conceded but to England at large. Besides other ad- by hundreds in heated factories, their health
one to another. It was very tractable and vantages, it was a nursery for our seamen, as rapidly wasting, and their earnings scarce suf-
gentle in its temper, and never, as spoiled well as a benefit to our West India colonies. ficient to keep soul and body together! Think
children generally do, took undue advantage How, indeed, could England rear and maintain of other slavish employments—often under
of this partiality towards it, by becoming peevish those men who are to defend the state, were it masters quite as arbitrary and unfeeling as the
and headstrong. From the moment it was not for her colonies. But for the employment planters! Think of the thousands who are

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