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OLD-TIME SLAVER CAPTAINS AND THEIR SHIPS
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seers of the time were often called, to learn the day and hour when the ship must sail in order to have all

a page from a slaver's ship records 1752

the kindly influences of the heavenly bodies in her favor. Fortunately the chart which he obtained has been preserved, and we know from it that "D. L."