This peace was to have been ratified by intermarriages; but some of our captains, who were there, seeing their trade would be stopped for a while, sowed dissension again between them.

They actually set one village against the other, took a share in the contest, massacred many of the inhabitants, and carried others of them away as slaves.

But shocking as this transaction might appear, there was not a single history of Africa to be read, in which scenes of as atrocious a nature were not related.

They, he said, who defended this trade, were warped and blinded by their own interests, and would not be convinced of the miseries they were daily heaping on their fellow-creatures.

By the countenance they gave it, they had reduced the inhabitants of Africa to a worse state than that of the most barbarous nation.