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¦ " You may as well tell me the whole story , " said I , holding out a glass of rum as an inducement . " Well , . sir , " proceeded the negro , " another of his ways was this . He would strip a slave and smear him with grease from head to foot , and place him on an anthill . The ants , attracted by the grease ,
would rush out , cover him , and eat the flesh from his bones in a very short space of time , though it might seem an age to the sufferer . One of his negroes had offended him on one occasion . This negro was a huge , raw-boned , strong man , who was discontented pretty generally , and was supposed to have killed a detested overseer . The master , enraged with him for some cause ,, had him stripped and
bouud to an anthill in the way I described . The negro being tremendously strong , when tlie ants had gathered themselves upon him , and were beginning to feast upon his body , stung to madness by the pain , gave one furious effort and burst the ropes that held him . The ants did not stay long upon him when he had broken the cordage . He rushed away from the place , and secreted himself in the woods behind his master ' s house . The master did not of course
suspect anything about this . A day or two after , he happened to go to the anthill to discover any traces of the victim , but found none , not even the bones . Meanwhile the negro had dogged him for some time , waiting for a favourable opportunity for revenge ; he now stole up gently behind him . The master burst out laughing , and said , ' This negro must have been a very savourv morsel ; for the
ants have not left his bones uneaten . ' The words were scarcely uttered , when he was seized from behind , a gag w as thrust into his mouth , and looking up , he saw the eyes of the negro glaring down upon him , expressing such hate and fury , that he was paralyzed , as by the glance of a rattlesnake . The negro bound and stripped him , placed him upon the anthill , and disturbed it so , that the insects
rushed out m a fury , and settled in millions upon the master . The slave waited there , gazing with gratified passion upon the man , saw the flesh eaten inch by inch off his body , watched his victim writhing and struggling in the vain attempt to shake those persevering torturers from his body , saw him making many useless trials to speak . Much of his flesh was consumed before he died , at last , when the
ants attacked one of the large arteries , the blood poured forth in streams , and he was soon a helpless corpse . His slaves missed him that day and the next , then they searched for him , and found his hones bleaching by the side of the anthill , and his clothes lying a short distance off , by which only they w ^ ere able to identify the body . " " And what became of the neerro ?"
" He ran away , and got across to the coast of Africa , being secreted in the hold of an empty slave vessel . " " I ' ve been told that the negroes of Brazil are less cruelly used by their masters than those of Am erica ; because the religion of the masters in Brazil agrees with that of the slaves . Is such at all true ?" TOL . I . 4 r r
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¦ " You may as well tell me the whole story , " said I , holding out a glass of rum as an inducement . " Well , . sir , " proceeded the negro , " another of his ways was this . He would strip a slave and smear him with grease from head to foot , and place him on an anthill . The ants , attracted by the grease ,
would rush out , cover him , and eat the flesh from his bones in a very short space of time , though it might seem an age to the sufferer . One of his negroes had offended him on one occasion . This negro was a huge , raw-boned , strong man , who was discontented pretty generally , and was supposed to have killed a detested overseer . The master , enraged with him for some cause ,, had him stripped and
bouud to an anthill in the way I described . The negro being tremendously strong , when tlie ants had gathered themselves upon him , and were beginning to feast upon his body , stung to madness by the pain , gave one furious effort and burst the ropes that held him . The ants did not stay long upon him when he had broken the cordage . He rushed away from the place , and secreted himself in the woods behind his master ' s house . The master did not of course
suspect anything about this . A day or two after , he happened to go to the anthill to discover any traces of the victim , but found none , not even the bones . Meanwhile the negro had dogged him for some time , waiting for a favourable opportunity for revenge ; he now stole up gently behind him . The master burst out laughing , and said , ' This negro must have been a very savourv morsel ; for the
ants have not left his bones uneaten . ' The words were scarcely uttered , when he was seized from behind , a gag w as thrust into his mouth , and looking up , he saw the eyes of the negro glaring down upon him , expressing such hate and fury , that he was paralyzed , as by the glance of a rattlesnake . The negro bound and stripped him , placed him upon the anthill , and disturbed it so , that the insects
rushed out m a fury , and settled in millions upon the master . The slave waited there , gazing with gratified passion upon the man , saw the flesh eaten inch by inch off his body , watched his victim writhing and struggling in the vain attempt to shake those persevering torturers from his body , saw him making many useless trials to speak . Much of his flesh was consumed before he died , at last , when the
ants attacked one of the large arteries , the blood poured forth in streams , and he was soon a helpless corpse . His slaves missed him that day and the next , then they searched for him , and found his hones bleaching by the side of the anthill , and his clothes lying a short distance off , by which only they w ^ ere able to identify the body . " " And what became of the neerro ?"
" He ran away , and got across to the coast of Africa , being secreted in the hold of an empty slave vessel . " " I ' ve been told that the negroes of Brazil are less cruelly used by their masters than those of Am erica ; because the religion of the masters in Brazil agrees with that of the slaves . Is such at all true ?" TOL . I . 4 r r