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18*24. ceive it to be a far more respectable appendage. 

 August. Our visiters did not possess many curiosities, 

 and were certainly not so ricb as we had 

 found them on our former voyage, the chief 

 articles in which they bartered being their 

 weapons and clothes ; and, I blush while I re- 

 late it, two of the fair sex actually disposed of 

 their nether garments, a piece of indecorum I 

 had never before witnessed. A few seal, deer, 

 and hare skins, with those also of young dogs, 

 mice, and birds, were the other articles of 

 commerce ; and a very few ivory toys, with 

 sea-horse teeth of a small size, completed the 

 assortment. In a '^ ridicule," with some of 

 these articles, we found a piece of very pure 

 plumbago, of the size of a walnut ; and with 

 the toys was one of a description I had not 

 before seen. It was a large heavy piece of 

 ivory, in which many holes were drilled at 

 regular intervals, but leading in different di- 

 rections. A small peg is attached to this by a 

 string, and the game consists in throwing up 

 the ivory block, and receiving it on the pin, 

 in much the same manner as our game of cup 

 and ball. A new variety of comb was also 

 purchased, and I procured a mirror, composed 

 of a broad plate of black mica, so fitted into 

 a leathern case, as to be seen on either side. 

 Our trading had continued some time before 



