He had been two voyages to the coast of Africa for slaves; one as a surgeon's mate in the Alexander, in the year 1785, and the other as surgeon in the Little Pearl, in the year 1786, from which he had not then very long returned.
I asked him if he was willing to give me any account of these voyages, for that I was making an inquiry into the nature of the Slave Trade.

He replied, he knew that I was.

He had been cautioned about falling in with me; he had, however, taken no pains to avoid me.

It was a bad trade, and ought to be exposed.
I went over the same ground as I had gone with Gardiner relative to the first of these voyages; or that in the Alexander.

It is not necessary to detail the particulars.