226 COMMENCE TRADING. 



However, by way of closing our conference 

 amicably, I told him that the time was now come 

 for him to show whether or not he was the 

 friend of the white man, and that an opportunity 

 now presented itself of gaining the friendship of 

 the English people ; that this was the first at- 

 tempt to establish a trade with him, and that 

 he would be the first king who had seen and en- 

 couraged the means of adding to his country's 

 prosperity. On leaving me, he presented me with 

 two goats and thirty yams, and we parted on 

 excellent terms. He requested that the trade- 

 woman Amerboo might be sent to Iddah mar- 

 ket, with beads, snuff-boxes, looking-glasses, 

 knives,, and antimony, — with which latter the 

 natives paint the edges of their eyelids ; and 

 thus ended our first day's trade. 



The carpenter and four Kroomen sick. 



Amerboo was very successful in selling beads, 

 &c. to the amount of fourteen thousand cowries, 

 which proved exceedingly useful in the purchase 

 of provisions, but I regretted very much that we 

 had not a few tons of these very necessary and 

 essential articles. 



On the 24th January, Abboka came on board, 

 having had an attack of dysentery, to which the 



