All were keen traders, and had invested largely in native iron- hoes, axes, and ornaments.

Many of the hoes and spears had been taken from the slaving parties whose captives we liberated; for on these occasions our Senna friends were always uncommonly zealous and active.
The remainder had been purchased with the old clothes we had given them and their store of hippopotamus meat: they had no fear of losing them, or of being punished for aiding us.

The system, in which they had been trained, had eradicated the idea of personal responsibility from their minds.

The Portuguese slaveholders would blame the English alone, they said; they were our servants at the time.

No white man on board could purchase so cheaply as these men could.