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- # Deposition Segment 3
## Overview
"Deposition Segment 3" is a section of text extracted from the file `the_piazza_tales.txt`. This segment, spanning lines 5202 to 5222 of the source file, is part of a larger "Deposition" document within the "Melville Complete Works" collection.
## Context
This segment is a continuation of a deposition, following "Deposition Segment 2" and preceding the subsequent parts of the deposition. The deposition itself is contained within the file `the_piazza_tales.txt`, which is part of the larger "Melville Complete Works" collection.
## Contents
This segment details a specific event recounted in the deposition, focusing on the actions of an "American Captain" and the deponent. It describes the captain taking leave, the deponent's sudden impulse to follow him, and the deponent's subsequent jump into the captain's boat. The text notes that the original document included further accounts of the escape, the recapture of the "San Dominick," and expressions of gratitude towards "Captain Amasa Delano." The segment concludes by mentioning that the deposition then proceeds to provide data for criminal sentences, including a partial enumeration of the involved individuals.
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- evening, as has before been stated, the American Captain took leave, to
return to his vessel; that upon a sudden impulse, which the deponent
believes to have come from God and his angels, he, after the farewell
had been said, followed the generous Captain Amasa Delano as far as the
gunwale, where he stayed, under pretense of taking leave, until Amasa
Delano should have been seated in his boat; that on shoving off, the
deponent sprang from the gunwale into the boat, and fell into it, he
knows not how, God guarding him; that—
[_Here, in the original, follows the account of what further happened
at the escape, and how the San Dominick was retaken, and of the passage
to the coast; including in the recital many expressions of “eternal
gratitude” to the “generous Captain Amasa Delano.” The deposition then
proceeds with recapitulatory remarks, and a partial renumeration of the
negroes, making record of their individual part in the past events,
with a view to furnishing, according to command of the court, the data
whereon to found the criminal sentences to be pronounced. From this
portion is the following_;]
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- Deposition Segment 3