With this he kindly complied.

When he obtained it he brought it to me.

This account, which nearly corresponded with my own, was as follows:--In the vessel of twenty-five tons, the length of the upper part of the hold, or roof, of the room, where the seventy slaves were to be stowed, was but little better than ten yards, or thirty-one feet.

The greatest breadth of the bottom, or floor, was ten feet four inches, and the least five.

Hence, a grown person must sit down all the voyage, and contract his limbs within the narrow limits of three square feet.