I found from him, that, though there were slave-merchants at Lancaster, they made their outfits at Liverpool, as a more convenient port.

I learnt too from others, that the captain of the last vessel, which had sailed out of Lancaster to the coast of Africa for slaves, had taken off so many of the natives treacherously, that any other vessel known to come from it would be cut off.

There were only now one or two superannuated captains living in the place.

Finding I could get no oral testimony, I was introduced into the Custom-house.

Here I just looked over the muster-rolls of such slave-vessels as had formerly sailed from this port; and having found that the loss of seamen was precisely in the same proportion as elsewhere, I gave myself no further trouble, but left the place.
On my return to Liverpool, I was informed by Mr.Falconbridge, that a ship-mate of Ormond, of the name of Patrick Murray, who had been discharged in the West Indies, had arrived there.