1770. ROUND THE WORLD. &57 



transport of joy, and flourishing it over the busy Por- 

 tuguese, who crouched like a fox to a lion, he made 

 him, and the officer who commanded the party, sit 

 down upon the ground behind him : the people, who, 

 whatever were the crafty pretences of these iniquit- 

 ous factors for a Dutch company, were eager to sup- 

 ply us with whatever we wanted, and seemed also to 

 be more desirous of goods than money, instantly im- 

 proved the advantage that had been procured them, 

 and the market was stocked almost in an instant. To 

 establish a trade for buffaloes, however, which I most 

 wanted, I found it necessary to give ten guineas for 

 two, one of which weighed no more than a hundred 

 and sixty pounds ; but I bought seven more much 

 cheaper, and might afterwards have purchased as 

 many as I pleased almost upon my own terms, for 

 they were now driven down to the water side in 

 herds. In the first two that I bought so dear, Lange 

 had certainly a share, and it was in hopes to obtain 

 part of the price of others, that he had pretended 

 that we must pay for them in gold. The natives, 

 however, sold what they afterwards brought down 

 much to their satisfaction, without paying part of the 

 price to him as a reward for exacting money from us. 

 Most of the buffaloes that we bought, after our 

 friend, the prime minister, had procured us a fair 

 market, were sold for a musket a piece, and at this 

 price we might have bought as many as would have 

 freighted our ship. 



The refreshments which we procured here, con- 

 sisted of nine buffaloes, six sheep, three hogs, thirty 

 dozen of fowls, a few limes, and some cocoa-nuts ; 

 many dozen of eggs, half of which however proved 

 to be rotten ; a little garlic, and several hundred 

 gallons of palm-syrup. 



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