He showed that this was but one-third of the coast; and therefore that two-thirds were yet left for the diabolical speculations of the slave-merchants.

He expressed his surprise that such witnesses as those against the bill should have been introduced at all.

He affirmed that their oaths were falsified by their own log-books; and that from their own accounts the very healthiest of their vessels were little better than pestilential gaols.

Mr.Robert Hume, one of these witnesses, had made a certain voyage.

He had made it in thirty-three days.