Guns were an important item traded to Africans in the decades prior to 1800, usually paid for in gold or slaves.[45] Some historians argue that the introduction of firearms had an enormous impact on slave gathering in Africa.

With a lienvier gun, either the tripod must be carried on another animal or the number of cartridges carried must be very The acl-iantage of haring gun, mounting, and ammunition together needs no argument.

The Libollos, or natives of the Libollo country adjoining the Quissamas to the east, are a very fine race, and although not so numerous as the Quissamas, have offered to figlht the latter, and deliver their country to the Portuguese, if these will supply them with guns and ammunitio

,had numerous stations scattered along the coast from Ambrizette in the south to Ponto Banda north. At each of these we had depots of goods, which I visited regularly in turn, collecting the produce of the country, and giving in exchange all descriptions of British goods. Rum, gunpowder, and guns formed about "one-third of the total business transacted ; we traded up the rivers as far as they were navigable