Note 41 — Chapter IV
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The Spaniard, he said, would take in a cargo of sugar at Cuba which he would deliver at a French port, and take in wine for us; but we had so arranged that when he arrived at our ports he would be met by a custom-house officer, who would tell him that he could not be permitted to land his cargo. “Why?” the Spaniard would inquire. “I understood you wanted wine.” “So we do,” the officer would reply. Then the Spaniard would say, “I will exchange my wine for your earthenware.” “That will not do,” replies the officer. “It must be brought by Frenchmen on a French ship.” “But the French do not want your earthenware”[42]. “We cannot help that; we must not let you violate our Navigation Laws”[43].