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(This must had been early part of December 1865) and that the parties who took them over (Foster and Shelter, Lieut police of Mobile) had obtained $900, apiece for the men, and from $400, to $500 apiece for the women and children. This cargo was landed on the Southern Coast of Cuba.

Bowzer and Walters told [[blank]] that they were in the habit of furnishing colored crews for the small vessels that are engaged in the fruit trade between Mobile and Cuba. The masters of these vessels sell their colored crew at Cuba and return with a white crew. This business is now carried on every day systematically but, as Bowzer and Walters said, is not as profitable as running out a large cargo. Bowzer represented to [[blank]] that the Major, the Commissary at Mobile (office on Water Street opposite Bowzer's office) would furnish the rations for 300 negroes for ten days, and then if they should run out of provisions they'd run in and sell two or three or trade them and get provisions enough for the balance of the voyage. The Commissary was to receive an equal share with the other parties in the profits of the sales after paying expenses, and in case anything should be suspected, the vessel was to be burned at Cuba. Bowzer said the