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( 12 ) another man taken in the same way from on board a canoe along-side. The same trader very frequently sent slaves on board in the night, which, from their own information, he found, were every one of them taken in the neighbourhood of Annamaboe. He remarked, that slaves sent off in the night, were not paid for till they had been some time on board, lest, he thinks, they should be claimed; for some were really restored, one in particular, a boy, was carried on shore by some near relations, which boy told him, he had lived in the neighbourhood of Annamaboe, and was kidnapped.

There were many boys and girls on board Dr. Trotter's ship, who had no relations on board. Many of them told him they had been kidnapped in the neighbourhood of Annamaboe, particularly a girl of about eight years old, who said she had been carried off from her mother by the man who sold her to the ship.

Mr. Falconbridge was assured by the Rev. Philip Quakoo, chaplain at Cape Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast, that the greatest number of slaves were made by kidnapping.

He has heard that the great men on this part of the coast, dress up and employ women, to entice young men to be connected with them, that they may be convicted of adultery and sold.

Lieutenant Simpson heard at Cape Coast Castle, and other parts of the Gold Coast, repeatedly from the black traders, that the slave trade made wars and palavers. Mr. Quakoo, chaplain at Cape Coast Castle, informed him, that wars were made in the interiour [sic] parts, for the sole purpose of getting slaves.

There are two crimes on the Gold coast, which seem made on purpose to procure slaves; adultery and the removal of fetiches [sic]. As to adultery, he was warned against connecting himself with any woman not pointed out to him, for that the kings kept several who were sent