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| Wages advanced to captain, mates, boatswain, cook and steward | 440.00 |
| 200,000 cigars and 500 doubloons, cargo | 10,900.00 |
| Clearance and hush-money | 200.00 |
| Total: | $19,755.00 |
| Commission at 5% | 987.00 |
| Full cost of voyage out | $20,742.00 |
| 2. — Expenses Home. | |
| Captain’s head-money, at $8 a head | $1,736.00 |
| Mate’s head-money at $4.00 a head | 873.00 |
| Second mate’s and boatswain’s head-money, at $2 each | 873.00 |
| Captain's wages | 219.78 |
| First mate's wages | 175.56 |
| Second mate’s and boatswain’s wages | 307.12 |
| Cook’s and steward’s wages | 264,00 |
| 18 sailors’ wages | 1,972.00 |
| Total of expenses out and home | $27,162.46 |
| 8. — Expenses in Havana. | |
| Government officers, at $8 per head | $1,736.00 |
| My commission on 217 slaves, expenses off | 5,565.00 |
| Consignees’ Commission | 8,873.00 |
| 217 slave dresses | 634,00 |
| Extra expenses of all kinds | 1,000.00 |
| Total of all expenses | $39,970.46 |
| 4. — Returns. | |
| Vessel at auction | $3,950.00 |
| Proceeds of 217 slaves | 77,469.00 |
| $81,419.00 | |
