An interesting Auction. 



28s 



fetched from 8/. to 9/. a bag weighing 200 lb., 

 common brown sugar (very common) sokl at 

 upwards of 35. a pound; butter at lis. a pound, 

 jam at 4s. a pot, dried snook (a fish costing about 

 2fJ. a pound at the Cape) sold at 8.9. and 9s. a 



A restaurant at Fort Salisbury. 



pound, tinned hams fetched 21. a-piece, a bottle of 

 eau-de-cologne 20s., cotton shirts (price in London 

 9.y. Qd.) were here secured at 33.s., a new pair of 

 boots fetched 4/., an old shooting jacket 25.y. This 

 enumeration of prices will show that life at Fort 

 Salisbury was somewhat costly. Eighty oxen sold at 



