It's believed they were trying to reach Europe clandestinely.
据悉他们试图秘密抵达欧洲。
This enormous duty presented such a temptation to smuggling, that great quantities of this commodity were clandestinely exported, probably to all the manufacturing countries of Europe, but particularly to Holland, not only from Great Britain, but from Africa.
这种巨大的关税对走私产生了极大的诱惑, 以至于大量这种商品被秘密出口, 可能出口到欧洲所有的制造业国家, 尤其是出口到荷兰, 不仅来自英国, 还来自非洲。