Ford's Embarrassments--The Sale to Tibeats--The Chattel Mortgage--Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf--Description of the Latter--Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner--Meeting with Eliza--She still Mourns for her Children--Ford's Overseer, Chapin--Tibeats' Abuse--The Keg of Nails--The First Fight with Tibeats--His Discomfiture and Castigation--The attempt to Hang me--Chapin's Interference and Speech--Unhappy Reflections--Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey--Lawson and the Brown Mule--Message to the Pine Woods, 105 CHAPTER IX. The Hot Sun--Yet bound--The Cords sink into my Flesh--Chapin's Uneasiness--Speculation--Rachel, and her Cup of Water--Suffering increases--The Happiness of Slavery--Arrival of Ford--He cuts the Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck--Misery--The gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin--Their Kindness--Rachel Repeats the Occurrences of the Day--Lawson entertains his Companions with an Account of his Ride--Chapin's apprehensions of Tibeats--Hired to Peter Tanner--Peter expounds the Scriptures--Description of the Stocks, 118 CHAPTER X. Return to Tibeats--Impossibility of pleasing him--He attacks me with a Hatchet--The Struggle over the Broad Axe--The Temptation to Murder him--Escape across the Plantation--Observations from the Fence--Tibeats approaches, followed by the Hounds--They take my Track--Their loud Yells--They almost overtake me--I reach the Water--The Hounds confused--Moccasin Snakes--Alligators--Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp"--The Sounds of Life--North-West Course--Emerge into the Pine Woods--Slave and his Young Master--Arrival at Ford's--Food and Rest, 131 CHAPTER XI. The Mistress' Garden--The Crimson and Golden Fruit--Orange and Pomegranate Trees--Return to Bayou Boeuf--Master Ford's Remarks on the way--The Meeting-with Tibeats--His Account of the Chase--Ford censures his Brutality--Arrival at the Plantation--Astonishment of the Slaves on seeing me--The anticipated Flogging--Kentucky John--Mr. Eldret, the Planter--Eldret's Sam--Trip to the "Big Cane Brake"--The Tradition of "Sutton's Field"--Forest Trees--Gnats and Mosquitoes--The Arrival of Black Women in the Big Cane--Lumber Women--Sudden Appearance of Tibeats--His Provoking Treatment--Visit to Bayou Boeuf--The Slave Pass--Southern Hospitality--The Last of Eliza--Sale to Edwin Epps, 146 CHAPTER XII.