“ Newton has sometimes found all trade stopped, and the depredations of European traders have been assigned by the natives as the cause, and he has more than once or twice made up breaches of this kind between the ships and the natives. ”

“ Captain Hills was advised not to go on shore at Gambia, by the merchants there, for fear of being taken by the natives, who owed the English a grudge for some injuries received.
Mr. John Bowman says, that when a mate under Captain Strangeways, the ship then lying in the river S. Leon, at White Man's Bay, ready to sail, he was sent on shore to invite two traders on board. They came and were shewn into the cabin. Mean time people were employed in setting the sails, it being almost night, and the land breeze making down the river. ”

“ Captain Hall says, in Old Calabar River there are two towns. Old Town and New Town. A rivalship in trade produced a jealousy between the towns; so that through fear of each other, for a considerable time, no canoe would leave their towns to go up the river for slaves. This happened in 1767. In this year seven ships, of which five were the following — Duke of York, Bevan, — Edgar, Lace, — Indian Queen, Lewis, — Nancy, Maxwell — and Canterbury, Sparkes, — lay off the point which separates the towns. ”

“ When sober, he always expressed a resistance to harrass his people. Mr. Wadstrom also heard the king hold the same language on different days, and yet he afterwards ordered the pillage to be executed. Mr. Wadstrom has no doubt, but that he also pillages in other parts of his dominions, since it is the custom of the mulatto merchants (as both they and the French officers declare) when they want slaves, to go to the kings, and excite them to pillages, which are usually practised on all that part of the coast. ”

“ Frequently attempt themselves to carry off the Natives, and sometimes succeed. On the subject of Europeans attempting to carry off the natives, General Rooke says, that it was proposed to him by three captains of English slave ships, lying under the fort of Goree, to kidnap a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, men, women and children, king Damel's subjects, who had come to Goree in consequence of the friendly intercourse between him and Damel. ”

“ Europeans, by means of the Trade in Slaves, the occasion of these Enormities. — Sometimes use additional Means to excite the Natives to practise them. — Often attempt themselves to steal the Natives, and succeed. — Force Trade as they please, and are guilty of Injustice in their Dealings. ”

“ Howe] and in numbers, [Lieutenant Simpson] and traverse the ships with as much confidence as if they had been on shore, [Captain Wilson.]
Europeans force trade as they think proper on the Coast, and are guilty of great injustice in their dealings with the Natives there. Mr. Ellison says, when he was lying at Yanamaroo, in the Gambia, slaves were brought down. The traders raised the price. The captains would not give it, but thought to compel them by firing upon the town. They fired red hot shot from the ship, and set several houses on fire. ”

“ Brue's, bought one of the wives of a man, whom he had previously made drunk, and who wished to redeem her, when sober next day, as did the person he (Mr. Morley) bought the man of, but neither of them was given up. He supposes they would have given a third more than the price paid, to have redeemed them. ”