“ It may be remarked here, that this diseased and forlorn state of the seamen is so inseparable from the slave trade, that the different evidences have not only witnessed it at Jamaica, Antigua, and Barbadoes, (the places mentioned by Captain Hall) but wherever they have seen Guinea-men arrive, namely at St. Vincents, Grenada, Dominique, and in North America also. [3]
Effects of the Trade visible on their Constitution, even after they return home. ”

“ As a farther proof, and that an undeniable one, that the above description of persons is notorious in the islands, it appears by the evidence, that they are marked by a peculiar and cant-name, according to the sort of place which they usually haunt. ”

“ They are mentioned again to be destitute, and starving, and without the means of support, no merchantmen taking them in because they are unable to work, and men of war refusing them for fear of infection. Many of them are also described to be lying about in a dying stat; and others have been actually found dead, and the bodies of others have been seen carrying by the negroes to be interred. ”