five per cent on all the captain his residence on shore and sends lor goods from his vessel a they are wanted while the mate and crew remain on to despatch and receive the cargo every vessel has in ite employ several by whom all the boat service is formed when the demand for goods appears to have ceased captain either takes his cargo away or leaves a d by lo b disposed of in his � bid � i� here the same process is md lo on the is sold the captain at the different places where he has left goods to the proceeds and thence home to for a new o regular have numerous orders to fill op from persons resident on the coast taking of course to allow a good profit for their trouble and freight the trade with the is easy and sufficiently plain the difficulty being the somewhat essential one of payment in abundance are eager to buy oa credit but possessing little or no capital they often fail id satisfy their obligations at the period assigned � if they ever pay at all commercial integrity is not here of high aa order as in older countries where the great body of merchants have established a standard of which must not venture to another large branch of business is at places where slave trade is carried on as at and here guns powder cotton and other goods suitable for the purchase or of slaves are sold at good prices for cash or bills of exchange bills of ihe notorious slave dealer at on an eminent spanish house in new york and another in london are taken as readily as cash a large number of the vessels engaged in the african trade whether english or american do a considerable part of their business either with the or wi natives settled at the slave and who from their connection with the trade have plenty of money some of the large english houses give orders to their captains and not to traffic with men to be slave but if a come with money in his hand and liberal prices it requires a conscience and integrity are usually met with on l e coast of africa to the temptation the merchant at is by journal of an to know nothing of all this it is quite an ing moral question however how far either old or new land can be pronounced free from the guilt and ot slave trade while with so little they its profits contribute essential aid to its the method of trade with the natives is more tedious that with the and entirely in its on at a trade it is necessary first of pay the king his dash or present varying in value twenty dollars to seven or eight hundred such sums as latter are paid only by ships of eight hundred or a tons and in the great rivers as or the may be considered as equivalent to the duties on foreign ports in civilized countries and doubtless as in those the himself by an price upon the king being dashed to his satisfaction trade the bring off the articles which the have for sale and the goods of the vessel are exhibited return at first it is a slow process either party o� iii little for the of the other and asking much own but in a few days prices becoming established sides business grows brisk and flags only when one party has little more to exchange native agents are red l the stranger some being attached to the vessel and others trade men the native towns these in addition to their small regular pay continually receive presents which are necessary in order to excite their zeal there is still another mode of trading resorted to masters of vessels they quantities of goods � in value from a trifling sum up to a thousand dollars or e to native trade men these or part of them trade man goes into the interior makes trade with the and brings the proceeds to his employer these by he african be general plan is a block house in the centre with extending from each angle two for for trading houses the whole enclosed within a b they are imposing and constructed k evident view to it is said that all but i vessels are to be from trading within range f and that a man of war is to be stationed at each settlement the captain of a informed me that the are about to sell their fort at to the french ne gave as his authority the single officer remaining at it is perhaps to be regretted that the colonies of were not originally planted in the fertile territory along which we have sailed and which other nations are pre occupying does not appear to possess so rich a soil as most other parts of the coast there is more sand and more marsh above than below cape but the country between cape and is inhabited by cruel warlike and powerful tribes and a colony would need more strength than has ever yet to save it from destruction from to there is a chain of which have been held by different european nations for centuries nearly all the coast is claimed by these foreigners while the interior is occupied by such powerful as those of and on these accounts the tract now called extending about three hundred miles from cape to cape was the most open for the purposes of even within the limits just named however both france and england have recently betrayed a purpose of it is to be hoped that these nations will hereafter transfer their titles to their policy doubtless is to hold the country for its exclusive trade or until they can obtain advantageous terms of commercial intercourse with the and natives the attention of the society at home m 