He was one of those who destroyed our barracoons and deprived us of our property.
Independent of all these were other islands, devoted to the barracoons or slave-prisons, ten or twelve of which contained from one hundred to five hundred slaves in each.
These barracoons were made of rough staves or poles of the hardest trees, four or six inches in diameter, driven five feet in the ground, and clamped together by double rows of iron bars.
His flush barracoons became proverbial throughout the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, and his look-outs were ceaseless in their signals of approaching vessels.
Next year, the Mongo's barracoons should teem with his conquests.
Since the English man-of-war had sailed, his barracoons began to fill once more with negroes from the interior, and he was now prepared to ship a cargo by the first adventurer's vessel which should arrive.
We found that they were the principal slave-dealers on the coast, having, as we afterwards discovered, several barracoons at numerous other stations, and parties constantly engaged in capturing and purchasing slaves.
They had erected barracoons on those parts of the coast where slaves could be collected with the greatest ease.
Night and day these barracoons are guarded by armed men, and the slightest insubordination immediately punished.
In these barracoons the slaves, when purchased, are imprisoned, till shipped on board a slave-vessel.
They had from forty to fifty points where barracoons were placed, and many thousands of slaves every year were exported from them.
To these are attached barracoons or sheds made of heavy piles driven deep into the earth, lashed together with bamboos, and thatched with palm-leaves.
In these barracoons slaves captured in the interior were held until they were ready to be shipped.
Had your captain taken it into his head to land a party and make a search of the peninsula, the barracoons would have been discovered, and friend Lobo would have been a ruined man.
We could just make out the Pandora riding upon her anchor, and we thought we could distinguish the cabins and barracoons of King Dingo Bingo, peeping out from among the green trees.
Most of the masters of barracoons were Spaniards, and some were college-bred men, with harems and splendid mansions.
And in the same way we proceeded to each building in turn, until the entire settlement, barracoons and all, was a roaring furnace of flame.
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