"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."