huggermuggering

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Surely all our victories by sea and land might warrant our stipulating for so much, in place of huggermuggering with doubtful ill -- defined treaties, specifying that you Johnny Crapeau, and you Jack Spaniard, shall steal men, and deal in human flesh, in such and such a degree of latitude only, while, if you pick up one single slave a league to the northward or southward of the prescribed line of coast, then we shall blow you out of the water wherever we meet you.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812