Mabimbi's Story

             Hello my name is Mabimbi and I was a slave on one of the slave ships but I have now escaped and am free. I will try to tell you my story but my memories going a bit but so I will tell you up to where I can remember clearly, here goes.
             My friends and me were playing a game of Walla Walla before lunch, when a medium sized – heavy weight igneous rock, which was thrown from above, came smashing down on my head. Then with only a few seconds to recover a large heavyweight sedimentary rock was thrown from my right and thumped down on my foot. Then a man, of whom I had never seen before, lobbed a small – medium weight metamorphic rock into my stomach. As I pulled my self up off of the floor only to find all my friends being dragged off by these men, the man grabbed me and ran with me to catch up with the others. I was separated from my friends, I kept getting thrown around and kept getting kicked in my leg as we caught up with the others they started talking to each other but I could not work out what they were saying, their language was foreign to my ears. They then dropped me down and left.
             After I had just started to get comfortable in my sack a whistling person picked my sack up and pulled open the drawstring. I jumped out and shouted 'Yo ho ho ahoy ho!' which in English means 'What's goin' on!' The man told me he came in peace.
             He grabbed my hand and started wobbling it up and down repeatedly, then he said that I had won a 1st class holiday to America. I jumped on the floor and rolled around with happiness. He then said I leave in 1 hour, we started on our way to the port.
             I asked him why I had been treated so roughly, and he replied that it was all part of the surprise. I forgave him and thought no more of it. When we got to the port I saw the massive cruiser, I felt very excited that I would be sailing on such a fine vessel. I walked up the walkway on to the deck then two rough crewmem...

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