One officer, who was put in charge of a slaver that carried 700 slaves, writes: "They filled the waist and gangways in a fearful jam, for there were over 700 men, women, boys, and young girls.

Not even a waistcloth can be permitted among slaves on board ship, since clothing even so slight would breed disease.

To ward off death, ever at work on a slave ship, I ordered that at daylight the negroes should be taken in squads of twenty or more, and given a salt-water bath by the hose-pipe of the pumps.

This brought renewed life after their fearful nights on the slave deck....

No one who has never seen a slave deck can form an idea of its horrors.