For the slave-vessels, which returned to Liverpool, sailed immediately into the docks, so that I saw at once their sickly and ulcerated crews.

The number of vessels, too, was so much greater from this, than from any other port, that their sick made a more conspicuous figure in the infirmary.

And they were seen also more frequently in the streets.
With respect to their treatment, nothing could be worse.

It seemed to me to be but one barbarous system from the beginning to the end.

I do not say barbarous, as if premeditated, but it became so in consequence of the savage habits gradually formed by a familiarity with miserable sights, and with a course of action inseparable from the trade.