The old man accordingly gave twenty-two of these in exchange for himself.

The rest, however, being from that time filled with apprehensions of being on some ground or other sold to the slave-ships, fled to the mountains of Sierra Leone, where they now dragged on a miserable existence.
The son himself was sold, in his turn, soon after.

In short, the whole of that unhappy peninsula, as he learnt from eye-witnesses, had been desolated by the trade in slaves.

Towns were seen standing without inhabitants all over the coast; in several of which the agent of the Company had been.
There was nothing but distrust among the inhabitants.

Every one, if he stirred from home, felt himself obliged to be armed.
Such was the nature of the Slave-trade.