I found her to be a little wood-vessel, called the Lively, Captain Williamson, or one which traded to Africa in the natural productions of the country, such as ivory, bees'-wax, Malaguetta pepper, palm-oil, and dye-woods.

I obtained specimens of some of these, so that I now became possessed of some of those things of which I had only read before.

On conversing with the mate, he showed me one or two pieces of the cloth made by the natives, and from their own cotton.

I prevailed upon him to sell me a piece of each.

Here new feelings arose, and particularly when I considered that persons of so much apparent ingenuity, and capable of such beautiful work as the Africans, should be made slaves, and reduced to a level with the brute creation.