On comparison with the Slave Trade, the result would be, that two vessels to Africa would destroy more seamen than eighty-three sailing to Newfoundland.

There was this difference also to be noted, that the loss in the one trade was generally by the weather or by accident, but in the other by cruel treatment or disease; and that they who went out in a declining state of health in the one, came home generally recovered; whereas they, who went out robust in the other, came home in a shattered condition.
At Plymouth I laid the foundation of another committee.

The late William Cookworthy, the late John Prideaux, and James Fox, all of the society of the Quakers, and Mr.George Leach, Samuel Northcote and John Saunders, had a principal share in forming it.

Sir William Ellford was chosen chairman.
From Plymouth I journeyed on to Falmouth, and from thence to Exeter, where having meetings with the late Mr.Samuel Milford, the late Mr.
George Manning, the Reverend James Manning, Thomas Sparkes, and others, a desire became manifest among them of establishing a committee there.
This was afterwards effected; and Mr.Milford, who at a general meeting of the inhabitants of Exeter, on the 10th of June, on this great subject, had been called by those present to the chair, was appointed the chairman of it.
With respect to evidence, which was the great object of this tour, I found myself often very unpleasantly situated in collecting it.

I heard of many persons capable of giving it to our advantage, to whom I could get no introduction.