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- # Deponent's Personal Statement
## Overview
This entity is a subsection titled "Deponent's Personal Statement" from the text file "the_piazza_tales.txt". It is part of the larger section "Deposition of Benito Cereno" and belongs to the collection "Melville Complete Works". The text within this subsection details the personal state and future intentions of the deponent, Benito Cereno.
## Context
This subsection is extracted from "the_piazza_tales.txt", a file within the "Melville Complete Works" collection. It follows the "Deposition Testimony" subsection and precedes the "Author's Meta-Commentary". The "Deposition of Benito Cereno" section provides the immediate context for this personal statement.
## Contents
The "Deponent's Personal Statement" contains Benito Cereno's declaration regarding his age (twenty-nine years) and his physical and mental condition. He states his intention not to return home to Chili after his dismissal by the court, but rather to enter a monastery on Mount Agonia. The statement concludes with his signing of the document and crossing himself before departing in his litter with the monk Infelez, heading to the Hospital de Sacerdotes. The names "BENITO CERENO" and "DOCTOR ROZAS" are also present within this subsection.
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- He said that he is twenty-nine years of age, and broken in body and
mind; that when finally dismissed by the court, he shall not return
home to Chili, but betake himself to the monastery on Mount Agonia
without; and signed with his honor, and crossed himself, and, for the
time, departed as he came, in his litter, with the monk Infelez, to the
Hospital de Sacerdotes.
BENITO CERENO.
DOCTOR ROZAS.
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