Excerpt 1 Olaudah Equiano- Reading #1 I was soon put under the decks, and there I received such a salutation (greeting) in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness (horribleness) of the stench and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables (food); and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across I think the windlass(a part of the ship), and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely

Look closely at the phrase, " I now wished for the last friend , death, to relieve me , " What is Equiano referring to?

A.
he hopes to find friends from home

B.
he hopes to be rescued

C.
he hopes his friends will bring food

D.
he hopes to die