IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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for many miles on the coast, is to them what 
,Yirginia formerly was to the sugar-growing states 
of this confederacy, namely, the slave-growing 
region. It was thought that in the year 1855 not 
less than seventy slave-canoes, with cargoes, pass- 
ed through the lagoon which divides Sherbro 
Island from the mainland, en route for the Soosoo 
country. A number of canoes were also taken ; 
but as they travel mostly by night, and have a 
great many places in which to secrete themselves 
by day all along the coast, many avoid detection. 
From twenty to forty are packed into one canoe 
— put into the closest possible space as a matter of 
course. In this condition they often get sick ; but 
they are not cared for any more than a sick dog 
would be of the same value. How similar to the 
treatment of slaves by white men. 
In evidence of this, we will give the treatment 
which a cargo of slaves taken on board in tha.t 
country, and landed at the West Indies, received at 
the hands of white men, and a white captain. We 
. have this from the captain’s own lips. In two 
hours eight hundred slaves were put into the ves- 
sel — in his own words, tumbled into the hold like 
sacks of grain.” On the passage, three hundred 
died. The only attention paid to the sick was to 
remove the dead from among them every morn 
ing. Some mornings thirty were thrown over- 
