"Musquito, in conversation with Mr. Bisdee, the jailor, and some other persons, after his sentence, said, "Hanging no good for black fellow." Mr. Bisdee.—"Why not as good for black fellow as for white fellow, if he kills a man?" Musquito.—"Very good for white fellow, for he used to it." He evidently meant that his execution was useless as an example to the savages: although executions were useful amongst the white people, who from custom understood the reason of men being thus punished as examples for others."

"Put him in a gaol, Mata Guberna!! You take it him own country, take it him black woman, kill't right out, all him litta child — den you put him in your gaol. Ah, Mata Guberna, dat a very good way. 'Pose you like dat way — 'pose all same dat black un! I nebber like dat way. You better kill it right out."

"Before the whitefellow came, we wore no dress, but knew no shame, and were all free and happy; there was plenty to eat, and it was a pleasure to hunt for food. Then when the white man came among us, we were hunted from our ground, shot, poisoned, and had our daughters, sisters, and wives taken from us. Could you blame us if we killed the white man? If we had done likewise to them, would they not have murdered us?"