THE SLA VE TRADE. 9 



more than a match for the black gentlemen ; and the whole 

 transaction between the Portuguese and Paupaiis does credit 

 to all concerned in this gentlemanly traffic in human 

 flesh. 



" Daaga sold his prisoners ; and nnder pretence of paying 

 liin:i, he and his Paiipau guards were enticed on board a Por- 

 tuguese vessel ; they were treacherously overpowered by the 

 Christians, wdio bound them beside their late prisoners, and 

 the vessel sailed over ' the great salt water.' 



" This transaction caused in the breast of the savage a deep 

 liatred against all wdiite men a hatred so intense that he 

 frequently, during and subsequent to the mutiny, declared he 

 would eat the first wdiite man he killed ; yet this cannibal 

 was made to swear allegiance to our Sovereign on the Holy 

 Evangelists, and was then called a British soldier. 



" On the voyage the vessel on board which Daaga had been 

 entrapped w^as captured by the British. He could not com- 

 prehend that his new" captors liberated him : he had been 

 over-reached and trepanned by one set of white men, and he 

 naturally looked on his second captors as more successful 

 rivals in the human, or rather inhuman, Guinea trade ; there- 

 fore this event lessened not his hatred for white men in 

 the abstract. 



" I was informed by several of the Africans wdio came wuth 

 him that when, during the voyage, they upbraided Daaga 



