208 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
posed to appear; advances ; his eyes glowing fire ; returns 
triumphant ; while the spectators are clapping their hands 
and striking their breasts in turns ; he then squatted down. 
The only presents made by Europeans concerned in the 
slave trade, were brandy, musquets, and powder, all pro- 
moters of civilization and encouragers of population. 
A foomoo waited on me with a present of a goat, for 
which I gave two fathoms of chintz and a necklace, and 
he pronrised to procure me two canoes at day-light the 
following mornining. 
Dr. Smith made an excursion along the bank of the 
river to the northward, limestone and clay slate alternating. 
The women braid their hair, and in this state it looks 
well ; but when the braiding is undone, horridly frightful, 
like a black mop. 
Alligators are so plentiful hereabouts, and so frequently 
carry off the women, who at daylight go down to the river 
for water, that while they are filling their calabashes, one 
of the party is usually employed in throwing large stones 
into the river outside of them. Here I learn that they 
have two crops of Indian corn a year. 
Several instances have occurred which shew the minute 
divisions of property : three or four people have usually a 
share in a goat; and even a fowl is seldom without two 
