These houses were in Marsh-street, and most of them were then kept by Irishmen.
The scenes witnessed in these houses were truly distressing to me; and yet, if I wished to know practically what I had purposed, I could not avoid them.

Music, dancing, rioting, drunkenness, and profane swearing, were kept up from night to night.

The young mariner, if a stranger to the port, and unacquainted with the nature of the Slave-trade, was sure to be picked up.
The novelty of the voyages, the superiority of the wages in this over any other trades, and the privileges of various kinds, were set before him.
Gulled in this manner he was frequently enticed to the boat, which was waiting to carry him away.

If these prospects did not attract him, he was plied with liquor till he became intoxicated, when a bargain was made over him between the landlord and the mate.

After this his senses were kept in such a constant state of stupefaction by the liquor, that in time the former might do with him what he pleased.