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a el, y no al comandante, siendo asi que el
D.n Agustin lo havia subido en su bato?
a lo qual dice Cofi que le contes
to que el no sabia nada.
Se le previno por su Mrd al D.n Agustin
Alain le preguntase el frances al Negro
Cofi sobre la ultima parte de los expuesto en
su declaracion es de saber, que lo que ha
via dicho del Negro Cesar era porque en
el año pasado en tiempo de la siembra del
añil estaba persuadiendo Cesar a los Negros
Minas a levantarse contra los blancos, y matarlos
y haviendolo executado asi el dicho D.n Agustin
y preguntado por los Ynterpretes Minas el Negro
Cofi se explico manifestando haver entendido lo que
se le interrogaba, y en su virtud dixo: Que no le
havia expuesto tal cosa al Comandante repitien
do lo mismo que ha dicho arriba, de quen en la oca
D.n Agustin lo havia subido en su bato?
a lo qual dice Cofi que le contes
to que el no sabia nada.
Se le previno por su Mrd al D.n Agustin
Alain le preguntase el frances al Negro
Cofi sobre la ultima parte de los expuesto en
su declaracion es de saber, que lo que ha
via dicho del Negro Cesar era porque en
el año pasado en tiempo de la siembra del
añil estaba persuadiendo Cesar a los Negros
Minas a levantarse contra los blancos, y matarlos
y haviendolo executado asi el dicho D.n Agustin
y preguntado por los Ynterpretes Minas el Negro
Cofi se explico manifestando haver entendido lo que
se le interrogaba, y en su virtud dixo: Que no le
havia expuesto tal cosa al Comandante repitien
do lo mismo que ha dicho arriba, de quen en la oca
Translation
him, or the commander, being that
Don Agustin had [???] ?
to which Cofi says that he answered
that he did not know anything
Don Agustin Alain was told by his Honor
that he should ask the Black Cofi in French
about the last part of what he had said in
his declaration namely, that what he had
said about the Black Cesar was because in
the past year at the time of planting the
indigo Cesar was persuading the Minas
Blacks to rise up against the whites, and kill them
and the said Don Agustin having done so
and being asked through the Mians Interpreters the Black
Cofi explained himself showing that he had understood what
he was being asked, in virtue of which he said: That he had not
said any such thing to the Commander repeating
the same that he had said above, that in the
Don Agustin had [???] ?
to which Cofi says that he answered
that he did not know anything
Don Agustin Alain was told by his Honor
that he should ask the Black Cofi in French
about the last part of what he had said in
his declaration namely, that what he had
said about the Black Cesar was because in
the past year at the time of planting the
indigo Cesar was persuading the Minas
Blacks to rise up against the whites, and kill them
and the said Don Agustin having done so
and being asked through the Mians Interpreters the Black
Cofi explained himself showing that he had understood what
he was being asked, in virtue of which he said: That he had not
said any such thing to the Commander repeating
the same that he had said above, that in the
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