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agreeable to the women, who, it seems, estimate a man’s 
beauty by the wideness of this cavity, which in some measur- 
ed near an inch, the whole of the teeth, and particularly the 
two front ones, being enormously broad, and very white. 
Our Sonio visitors were almost without exception sulky 
looking vagabonds, dirty, swarming with lice, and scaled 
over with the itch, all strong symptoms of their having been 
civilized by the Pertuguese, and in their appearance and 
manners forming a striking contrast, not unimportant to the 
study of national manners, to our Malemba guests, who 
were chearful, clean, drest even to foppishness, and choquéd 
their glasses with us ; in short, quile gentlemen @ la Francaise, 
the nation with which they have had most intercourse. 
Some canoes brought on board a few pigs, goats, fowls and 
eggs, for sale, but the prices they asked were so exorbitant, 
that for fear of spoiling the market up the river, by their re- 
ports of our facility, I confined myself to the purchase of a 
few fowls and eggs. ‘The value they here set on our differ- 
ent articles for barter was by no means in the proportion of 
their respective English prices; for an empty bottle, 
a looking-glass, or knife, invoiced at 3d, we got a full grown 
fowl, while for a bunch of beads that cost 2s. 10d. they 
offered but two; and for a small goat, they wanted four 
fathoms of blue baft. We however purchased for a mere 
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