Mr.How, a botanist in the service of Government, stated, that on the arrival of an order for slaves, from Cape Coast Castle, while he was there, a native chief immediately sent forth armed parties, who brought in a supply of all descriptions in the night.
But he would now mention one or two instances of another sort, and these merely on account of the conclusion, which was to be drawn from them.

When Captain Hills was in the river Gambia, he mentioned accidentally to a Black pilot, who was in the boat with him, that he wanted a cabin-boy.

It so happened that some youths were then on the shore with vegetables to sell.
The pilot beckoned to them to come on board; at the same time giving Captain Hills to understand, that he might take his choice of them; and when Captain Hills rejected the proposal with indignation, the pilot seemed perfectly at a loss to account for his warmth; and drily observed, that the slave-captains would not have been so scrupulous.

Again, when General Rooke commanded at Goree, a number of the natives, men, women, and children, came to pay him a friendly visit.

All was gaiety and merriment.