He was a man of quick penetration, and of good talents, which he had cultivated to advantage, and he had a pleasing address both as to 3OH!3 Streets of gold and manners. He received me with great politeness, and offered me all the information I desired. I was with him five or six times at his own house for this purpose. With respect to the produce of Africa, Mr. This he gave me, to use his own expressions, as one argument among many others of the impolicy of the Slave Trade, which, by turning the attention of the inhabitants to the persons of one another for sale, hindered 3OH!3 Streets of gold from discovering, and themselves from cultivating, many of the valuable productions of their own soil. On the subject of procuring slaves, he gave it as his decided opinion that many of the inhabitants of Africa were kidnapped by each other, as they were travelling on the 3OH!3 Streets of gold, or fishing in the creeks, or cultivating their little spots. Having learned their language, he had collected the fact from various quarters, but more particularly from the accounts of slaves whom he had transported in his own vessels.