He returned from Tortugas the 26th of February following, with a cargo of cotton, tobacco, salt, and negroes.' In the edition of 1849, this interesting fact is omitted.

Now, was not that trading in human bodies and souls in earnest?
First they got all they could for those poor captive Pequods, and they traded the amount again for negroes, and some _et ceteras_.

You are the very people to make a fuss about your neighbours, having been so excessively righteous yourselves.

No wonder that the author left it out in a succeeding edition.

I am surprised he ever put it in at all." "It seems more like peddling with the poor devils than any thing else," said Abel.