Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street

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166 THE PIAZZA TALES
deck ;
that these deaths were committed by the sailors,
ere they could be prevented. That so soon as informed
of it, Captain Amasa Delano used all his authority, and,
in particular with his own hand, struck down Martinez
Gola, who, having found a razor in the pocket of an
old jacket of his, which one of the shackled negroes
had on, was aiming it at the negro's throat ; that the
noble Captain Amasa Delano also wrenched from the
hand of Bartholomew Barlo a dagger, secreted at the
time of the massacre of the whites, with which he was in
the act of stabbing a shackled negro, who, the same day,
with another negro, had thrown him down and jumped
upon him * * * — ;
that, for all the events, befalling
through so long a time, during which the ship was in
the hands of the negro Babo, he cannot here give account ;
but that, what he has said is the most substantial of
what occurs to him at present, and is the truth under
the oath which he has taken ; which declaration he
affirmed and ratified, after hearing it read to him.
He said that he is twenty-nine years of age, and
broken in body and mind that when ;
finally dismissed
by the court, he shall not return home to Chili^ but betake
to the monastery on Mount Agonia without ;
and signed with his honour, and crossed himself, and,
for the time, departed as he came, in his litter, with the
monk Infelez, to the Hospital de Sacerdotes.
Benito Cereno.
Doctor Rozas.
If the Deposition have served as the key to fit into
the lock of the complications which precede it, then,
i as a vault whose door has been flung back, the San
!
Dominick's hull lies open to-day.
Hitherto the nature of this narrative, besides rendering
the intricacies in the beginning unavoidable, has more