Mr. Justice Maule. The learned Serjeant is asking you not what you heard, but what you looked for; you searched to see if there were slave fittings?—Yes; so far as going down into the hold. I did not disturb the cargo; I do not know what was in her.
You did not find any leagers?—No.
Are you able to say whether she was or was not fitted for the slave trade?—If she was equipped for it I should have seized her at once; but she was not.
You saw enough of her to see that she was not equipped for the slave trade?—Certainly; she had not slave equipments, leagers, hatches with open gratings, or irons, or coppers, or any of those things.
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. How long were you on board the vessel?—The first day a couple of hours, and the next day about the same time. I was on board her three or four times.
Can they get the equipments after they come into port when they discharge their cargo?—Yes, in many places they can; I can give you an instance of an American vessel—
Can the fittings be obtained there after the discharge of a vessel like the Augusta?—
Mr. Kelly. Where?
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd. At the place where the cargo is discharged.—The only way in which I can answer that question is this; if an agent at Gallinas expects a slave vessel to come out without equipments, he may take care to procure them from other vessels, and may have them perfectly ready: I can give an instance of that—
Mr. Kelly. Never mind that.