306 OUR TRADING AT ICCORY MARKET. 



or wished to injure the goods, and he would 

 punish them : on which I mentioned, that a boy 

 had the audacity to take up a knife from Mr. 

 Brown's wares and run off with it in presence of 

 a great number of people. 



At 2. 45, on the 27th, we got under weigh for 

 Addacoodah ; and at 7- 20, we anchored near the 

 spot where the Quorra was lately moored, in 

 rather shallow water, surrounded on all sides 

 by rocks. The number of cowries received 

 for small wares at the market amounted to 

 84,973 ; six thousand of them being for the small 

 pieces of black-lead before mentioned. The in- 

 voice price of the goods sold was about five 

 pounds six shillings, or perhaps something less. 

 These cowries would purchase nearly a hundred 

 weight of ivory and provisions. 



