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...ered to stay away even before we had left Bristol. It was a condition of me coming aboard. I think now that the least I saw the better James thought it would be.
But my curiosity got the better of me, and I still wasn’t satisfied with the answers to my questions. I just had to see for myself. I wanted to see these people with their darkened skin, who James’s family had just traded their goods for.
So I waited for James to fall asleep and then crept quietly out of the door. Down past the guard who I quietened with a coin.
To the deck stairs I went down, handing another coin to the guard on duty there. Who was either half asleep or drunk as he fell over himself when I walked into view.
Then I opened the door.
The smell was unbearable, as I quickly took my handkerchief to my nose to block out the stench. But nothing could stop my eyes from the sight that was before me. Nothing could have prepared me for anything worse.
But my curiosity got the better of me, and I still wasn’t satisfied with the answers to my questions. I just had to see for myself. I wanted to see these people with their darkened skin, who James’s family had just traded their goods for.
So I waited for James to fall asleep and then crept quietly out of the door. Down past the guard who I quietened with a coin.
To the deck stairs I went down, handing another coin to the guard on duty there. Who was either half asleep or drunk as he fell over himself when I walked into view.
Then I opened the door.
The smell was unbearable, as I quickly took my handkerchief to my nose to block out the stench. But nothing could stop my eyes from the sight that was before me. Nothing could have prepared me for anything worse.
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