Mr. Justice Maule. I may take it that each barracoon is a slave building, and that there are storehouses for stores?—Yes; the barracoons themselves are like large barns to keep the slaves in, and they contain five or six hundred slaves sometimes.
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. Are there any other buildings but the barracoons and the houses for the attendants?—At Dombocoro there are none other. At Tiendo there is a town just adjoining it: the slave establishment is towards the point. At Jaiera I saw nothing but the slave establishments. At Carmatiendo there is a large slave establishment, and the reputed owner is—
Mr. Kelly. Never mind the reputed owner.
Mr. Justice Maule. Any body might prove that an island was called Juan Fernandez without proving that he was seized of it in fee.
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. Is there any thing but a slave establishment there?—No, I saw nothing else: and the same at Camasuro; and I saw the same at Paisley: and at one or two of the islands there were some small slave establishments likewise.
Do you know of any other trade or commerce which is carried on there but the slave trade?—None other; and I think I was in the whole of the slave establishments I have mentioned. I went over the whole of them before they were destroyed, and saw no signs of any trade but the slave trade.
Having been cruizing off there for some years, should you have known it if there had been any other commerce carried on but the slave trade?—
Mr. Kelly. I object to that question, it is asking the witness to come to a conclusion, from being on the coast of Africa, that he had become acquainted with the whole of the commerce. I am quite sure that the last answer of the witness cannot be correct.
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. I submit to your Lordships that my learned friend cannot be correct in stating that the witness is not correct.
Mr. Kelly. I will prove it.