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to prot^(fi her agamfl: theememy's privateers; 

 and calculated for a cargo of five hundred 

 Haves. 



We were taught to believe that we 

 fliould find the negroes much better accom- 

 modated in this, than in the American fhip ; 

 but we could not obferve that the fuperiority 

 was either great, or ftriking. Although the 

 veffel was larger, the number of flaves was 

 more than proportionally greater. In other 

 refpeds the accommodations were nearly 

 equal. The Liverpool ihip was kept re- 

 markably clean ; but the American was not kfs 

 fo ; and, between the decks, the American fhip 

 was the moft commodious, being higher, and 

 having more room in proportion to the cargo, 

 from which the flaves had the advantage of 

 being lefs clofe and confined duriog the 

 night. 



In the fleeping place of the Engliih 

 veflel we could not (land up without ftooping 

 almoft double: — in each the men and women 

 w^ere kept feparate — in both their food was 

 rice; and in both they flept naked upon the 



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