Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street

BENITO CERENO 155
civil office in Peru, whither he had taken passage, was
at the time sleeping in the berth opposite Don Alex-
andre's ; that awakening at his cries, surprised by
them, and at the sight of the negroes with their bloodyhatchets
in their hands, he threw himself into the sea
through a window which was near him, and was drowned,
without it being in the power of the deponent to assist
or take him * * *
up that a ;
short time after killing
Aranda, they brought upon deck his german-cousin, of
middle-age, Don Francisco Masa, of Mendoza, and the
young Don Joaquin, Marques de Aramboalaza, then
lately from Spain, with his Spanish servant Ponce, and
the three young clerks of Aranda, Jose Mozairi, Lorenzo
Bargas, and Hermenegildo Gandix, all of Cadiz ; that
Don Joaquin and Hermenegildo Gandix, the negro Babo,
for purposes hereafter to appear, preserved alive ; but
Don Francisco Masa Jose Mozairi, and Lorenzo Bargas,
with Ponce the servant, besides the boatswain, Juan
Robles, the boatswain's mates, Manuel Viscaya and
Roderigo Hurta, and four of the sailors, the negro Babo
ordered to be thrown alive into the sea, although they
made no resistance, nor begged for anything else but
mercy ; that the boatswain, Juan Robles, who knew
how to swim, kept the longest above water, making acts
of contrition, and, in the last words he uttered, charged
this deponent to cause mass to be said for his soul to
our Lady of Succour : * * * that, during the three days
which followed, the deponent, uncertain what fate had
befallen the remains of Don Alexandro, frequently asked
the negro Babo where they were, and, if still on board,
whether they were to be preserved for interment ashore,
entreating him so to order it ; that the negro Babo
answered nothing till the fourth day, when at sunrise,
the deponent coming on deck, the negro Babo showed
him a skeleton, which had been substituted for the