text:  The unfeeling chiefs on the coast the most profligate debased and ferocious of mankind would by fraud force or purchase in the character of emigration agents drag as many to the coast as they pleased and might be wanted; and while they did not actually sell nor the European technically speaking buy the people so brought from interior parts these chiefs by simply fixing high port charges and fiscal regulations for revenue purposes would obtain from the transfer of the people--a transfer which these people could not resist or oppose--a much higher income than they before received from the _bona fide_ sale of slaves; and with which income they could and they would purchase European articles from European traders to enable them to furnish additional and future supplies