Benito Cereno Quotes

An iron collar was around his neck, from which depended a chain thrice wound round his body […] (52.75)

And might not that same undiminished Spanish crew, alleged to have perished off to a remnant, be at that very moment lurking in the hold? (58.123)

[…] the black with one arm still encircled his master, at the same time keeping his eye fixed on his face, as if to watch for the first sign of restoration, or relapse, as the event might prove....

The man was an impostor. (54.99)

"Were your friend's remains now on board this ship, Don Benito, not thus strangely would the mention of his name affect you." (51.72)

First, the affair of the Spanish lad assailed with a knife by the slave boy; an act winked at by Don Benito. (68.181)