and truth, which are found among these poor _Africans_? Suppose the preceding accounts are true, (which I see no reason or pretence to doubt of,) and we may leave _England_ and _France_, to seek genuine honesty in _Benin_, _Congo_, or _Angola_. III. We have now seen what kind of country it is, from which the Negroes are brought: and what sort of men (even white men being the judges) they were in their own country. Enquire we, thirdly, In what manner are they generally procured, carried to, and treated in _America_. 1. _First._ In what manner are they procured? Part of them by fraud. Captains of ships from time to time, invited Negroes to come on board, and then carried them away. But far more have been procured by force. The Christians landing upon their coasts, seized as many as they found, men, women and children, and transported them to _America_. It was about 1551, that the _English_ began trading to _Guinea_: at first, for gold and Elephant’s teeth, but soon after, for men. In 1556, Sir _John Hawkins_ sailed with two ships to Cape _Verd_, where he sent eighty men on shore to catch Negroes. But the natives flying, they fell farther down, and there set the men on shore, “to burn their towns and take the inhabitants.” But they met with such resistance, that they had seven men killed, and took but ten Negroes. So they went still farther down, till having taken enough, they proceeded to the _West-Indies_ and sold them. 2. It was some time before the _Europeans_ found a more compendious way of procuring _African_ Slaves, by prevailing upon them to make war upon each other, and to sell their prisoners. Till then they seldom had any wars: but were in general quiet and peaceable. But the white men first taught them drunkenness and avarice, and then hired them to sell one another. Nay, by this means, even their Kings are induced to sell their own subjects. So Mr. _Moore_ (Factor of the _African_ Company in 1730) informs us, “When the King of _Barsalli_ wants goods or brandy, he sends to the _English_ Governor at _James’_ Fort, who immediately sends a sloop. Against the time it arrives, he plunders some of his neighbours’ towns, selling the people for the goods he wants. At other times he falls upon one of his own towns, and makes bold to sell his own subjects.” So Mons. _Brue_ says, “I wrote to the King” (not the same) “if he had a sufficient number of slaves I would treat with him. He seized three hundred of his own people, and sent word he was ready to deliver them for goods.” He adds, “Some of the natives are always ready” (when well paid) “to surprize and carry off their own countrymen. They come at night without noise, and if they find any lone cottage, surround it and carry off all the people.”--_Barbot_, (another French Factor) says, “Many of the Slaves sold by the Negroes are prisoners of war, or taken in the incursions they make into their enemy’s territories. Others are stolen. Abundance of little Blacks of