He gives his opinion of the ships used in the squadron off the West African coast and suggests that shallow draft steamers able to enter the rivers would be the best preventive craft. It was a bad practice to allow the crews of slavers to go free after trial to resume their trade; they should be condemned to increasing sentences of hard labour. He vouches for the ability of the West African coast to grow all the products of the West and East Indies and America, and for the industry and good disposition of the Kru people.