This new accident made
him more impatient of liberty, and he was every day treating with
Trefry for his and Clemene's liberty, and offered either gold or a
vast quantity of slaves, which should be paid before they let him
go, provided he could have any security that he should go when his
ransom was paid. They fed him from day to day with promises, and
delayed him till the Lord-Governor should come; so that he began to
suspect them of falsehood, and that they would delay him till the time
of his wife's delivery, and make a slave of that too: for all the
breed is theirs to whom the parents belong. This thought made him very
uneasy, and his sullenness gave them some jealousies of him; so that I
was obliged, by some persons who feared a mutiny (which is very
fatal sometimes in those colonies that abound so with slaves, that
they exceed the whites in vast numbers), to discourse with Caesar, and
to give him all the satisfaction I possibly could. They knew he and
Clemene were scarce an hour in a day from my lodgings; that they eat
with me, and that I obliged 'em in all things I was capable of. I
entertained them with the loves of the Romans, and great me, which
charmed him to my company; and her, with teaching her all the pretty
works that I was mistress of, and telling her stories of nuns, and
endeavoring to bring her to the knowledge of the true God: but of
all discourses, Caesar liked that the worst, and would never be
reconciled to our notions of the Trinity, of which he ever made a
jest; it was a riddle, he said, would turn his brain to conceive,
and one could not make him understand what faith was.
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