7178. Do you conceive that the destruction of the barracoons is very effectual in putting down the slave trade?--I think that in many cases it would be attended with great benefit to the suppression of the slave trade, almost in every instance; but great care should be exercised in doing it. 7179. In what respects?--That the establishments should be decidedly ascertained to be slaving establishments, so as not to destroy any establishments that might be erected where innocent traffic was carried on, but only the slaving establishments that were _bonâ fide_ for the express purpose of slaving. 7180. Have you found any feeling of irritation created among the natives upon the coast by that mode of proceeding?--No; I was frequently at the Gallinas after the barracoons at the Gallinas were destroyed, and I thought a good feeling was springing up amongst the chiefs for the establishment of commerce and the cultivation of their soil. They certainly expressed a wish that the barracoons and the slaving establishments in the neighbouring states should be destroyed as well as their own. 7181. Do you conceive that the slave trade is popular with the natives of all classes, or that its profits are principally confined to the chiefs?--I think it is popular with the natives of all classes. 7182. Mr. _Forster_.] If it is popular with all classes, how do you account for their expressing a wish that the barracoons should be destroyed?--That followed after their own barracoons had been destroyed; they wished their neighbours’ barracoons to be destroyed likewise; they expressed their delight very openly when I went to the Gallinas after the establishments at Sea-bar had been destroyed. 7183. Supposing them to feel any irritation upon the subject, do you think it likely that it would be to the officer of a ship of war that they would communicate those feelings?--Perhaps not, directly; but I think the officers on being on shore would very easily observe if their feelings were unfavourable. 7184. _Chairman._] Had you any communication with the slave dealers themselves upon the subject of this method of putting down the slave trade?--Yes; I saw, I think, the most intelligent of the slave dealers that were established at the Gallinas, I think it was Don Angel Ximenes, who told me that it was impossible for him to carry on the slave trade, if this plan was followed up; that he was ruined by it; and that he intended immediately going to America, and that he had recommended the other slave dealers to do the same. Two or three of them, I know, left Africa immediately, and one other man left the Gallinas territory and settled in the neighbouring states, with the intention of trying to carry on the slave trade again.