6671. _Chairman._] Have any other settlements given facilities to the slave trade besides Sierra Leone?--Not directly, to my knowledge; the trade of the Gambia is principally with Bissao, and at Bissao there is a great slave trade, and legitimate trade, or rather produce trade going on hand-in-hand together; the merchants of Bissao purchase quantities of slaves and quantities of produce; and again, goods supplied by the merchants at the Gambia are paid for in produce and in money; those goods, undoubtedly, are more or less used by the slave dealers in the slave trade. 6672. Sir _R. H. Inglis_.] The case to which you referred as within your own knowledge, of a person detained in the Gallinas as a slave, taken from Sierra Leone, was the case forming a subject of the Parliamentary Papers of the year 1841?--No; another case; that was a case where she had gone voluntarily into the country, and been detained. 6673. Mr. _Aldam_.] How many white people would be necessary to manage the establishment on the island of Bulama?--I do not see the absolute necessity of one white person, unless it be the officer commanding the detachment; but at the utmost, three or four, independently of those who chose voluntarily to settle in order to trade. 6674. Mr. _Forster_.] You appear to entertain a doubt whether the British settlements already on the coast have rendered as much service as they might have done for the suppression of the slave trade?--I spoke more particularly of Sierra Leone; at the same time, the connexion of the Gambia trade with the slave trade is a fact that there is no doubt about. 6675. Sir _T. D. Acland_.] Do you also include the settlements on the Gold Coast?--I have no knowledge of the Gold Coast settlements. 6676. Then your remark does not apply to them?--No. 6677. Mr. _Forster_.] When you speak in terms of disapproval of the transactions which you say have taken place between Sierra Leone and the Gallinas, do you wish the Committee to understand that you would recommend that the intercourse between Sierra Leone and the Gallinas should be put a stop to?--There is now no intercourse whatever between Sierra Leone and the Gallinas, and there has not been any for the last few years; I speak of former years. 6678. Would you think it desirable that there should be a commercial intercourse between Sierra Leone and the Gallinas?--Undoubtedly I think a commercial intercourse is the only means of eradicating the slave trade; it is the best auxiliary of the cruizers. 6679. And your opinion would be the same with respect to the intercourse between the Gambia and Bissao, that it is desirable that commercial intercourse should be continued and extended if possible between those two places?--Yes, and that it should be separated as much as possible from the slave trade.