Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice.

Experience at Covey’s summed up—First six months severer than the second—Preliminaries to the change—Reasons for narrating the circumstances—Scene in the treading yard—Author taken ill—Unusual brutality of Covey—Author escapes to St Michael’s—The pursuit—Suffering in the woods—Driven back again to Covey’s—Bearing of ‘Master Thomas’—The slave is never...