huggermuggering

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.

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