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Some of the women were really fo difordered with the fright, 

 that they made but very feeble efforts in the market after- 

 wards. The reft befeeched me to transfer the market to the 

 carpet I fat on under the tree. This I confented to ; but, 

 growing wife by misfortune, my fervants now produced 

 fmall quantities of every thing, and not without a very 

 ^harp conteft and difpute, fomewhat fuperior in noife to that 

 of our fifli-women. We were, however, plentifully fup- 

 plied with honey, butter, flour, and pumpkins of an ex- 

 ceeding good tafte, fcarcely inferior to melons. 



Our caravan being fully vi&ualled the firft and fecond 

 day, our market was not opened but by private adventurers, 

 and feemingly favoured more of gallantry than gain. There 

 were three of them the moll diftinguifhed for beauty and 

 for tongue, who, by their difcourfe, had entertained me 

 greatly. I made each of them a prefent of a few beads, and 

 afked them how many kifles they would give for each ? 

 They anfwered very readily, with one accord, " Poh! we 

 don't fell kifles in this country: Who would buy them? 

 We will give you as many as you wifh for nothing." And 

 there was no appearance but, in that bargain, they meant 

 to be very fair and liberal dealers. 



The men feemed to have no talent for marketing ; nor 

 do they in this country either buy or fell. But we were 

 furprifed to fee the beaux among them come down to the 

 tent, the fecond day after our arrival, with each of them a 

 fmgle firing of thin, white bugles tied about their dirty, 

 black legs, a little above their ancle ; and of this they feem- 

 ed as proud as if the ornament had been gold or jewels. 



I easily 



