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 manner: From my own experience, my Lords, amongst the Indians in North America, the use of any beast to carry burthens is equally as unknown as in Africa. The reason, my Lords, I take to be the same with the Indians as with the Africans; namely, that the conveyance is water-carriage; and that the Africans, as well as the North American Indians, have only a few carrying places between their great water communication: Therefore, my Lords, it is evident, that these goods, bartered in lieu of ivory, are only carried short distanees by men, and transported chiefly by water. Far be it from me, my Lords, to draw any insidious inference from the evidence of Mr. Macaulay or Mr. Dawes, relative to Grumattes, or Domestic Slaves, employed by the Colony, notwithstanding that the charter does not permit such a conduct, directly or indirectly; but Slavery is so congenial to the laws, habits, and customs of Africa, that even Mr. Park, with his extensive knowledge of that