This estimate is made from the time in which they are put on board, to the time when they are disposed of in the colonies.

The French are supposed to lose the greatest number in the voyage, but particularly from this circumstance, because their slave ships are in general so very large, that many of the slaves that have been put on board sickly, die before the cargo can be completed.] [Footnote 057: This instance happened in a ship, commanded by one Collingwood.

On the 29th of November, 1781, fifty-four of them were thrown into the sea alive; on the 30th forty-two more; and in about three days afterwards, twenty-six.

Ten others, who were brought upon the deck for the same purpose, did not wait to be hand-cuffed, but bravely leaped into the sea, and shared the fate of their companions.

It is a fact, that the people on board this ship had not been put upon short allowance.