I bought a pair of the iron hand-cuffs with which the men-slaves are confined.

The right-hand wrist of one, and the left of another, are almost brought into contact by these, and fastened together, as the figure A in the annexed plate represents, by a little bolt with a small padlock at the end of it I bought also a pair of shackles for the legs.

These are represented by the figure B.The right ancle of one man is fastened to the left of another, as the reader will observe, by similar means.

I bought these, not because it was difficult to conceive how the unhappy victims of this execrable trade were confined, but to show the fact that they were so.

For what was the inference from it, but that they did not leave their own country willingly; that, when they were in the holds of the slave-vessels, they were not in the Elysium which had been represented; and that there was a fear, either that they would make their escape, or punish their oppressors?
I bought also a thumb-screw at this shop.