Somers,
although I do not know what it all means--and that he does not care a
curse when this happens. Still, he says that whereas he is growing old
and has known many sorrows--he alludes here, I gather, to some nigger
wives of his whom another savage knocked on the head; also to a child
to whom he appears to have been attached--you are young with all your
days and, he hopes, joys, before you. Therefore he would gladly do
anything in his power to save your life, because although you are
white and he is black he has conceived an affection for you and looks
on you as his child. Yes, Mr. Somers, although I blush to repeat it,
this black fellow says he looks upon you as his child. He adds,
indeed, that if the opportunity arises, he will gladly give his life
to save your life, and that it cuts his heart in two to refuse you
anything. Still he must refuse this request of yours, that he will ask
the creature he calls his Snake--what he means by that, I don't know,
Mr. Somers--to declare when the white man, named Dogeetah, will arrive
in this place.
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