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and dust resulting from the operation thrown 

 away. The beautifully white dressed material is 

 then taken out of the basket and piped, by por- 

 tions being twined around the medamager, which 

 being withdrawn, leaves a twisted lock. These, in 

 numbers of six or seven, are folded together into a 

 single knot, and laid by in a clean skin bag, until 

 they are required for spinning into thread. 



Long before Walderheros made his appearance 

 on his return from the market, his voice was heard 

 in the narrow lane that led from my house. He 

 always made a practice of thus intimating his 

 approach by conversing in a loud tone with any 

 of the neighbours who might happen to be looking 

 over the top of their inclosure, to examine the 

 passers by in the hollow way beneath. Talking as 

 he came along, he never concluded until after he had 

 entered the wicket of my garden, and as he closed 

 it behind him, a benediction, that might have been 

 heard to the market-place, generally finished these 

 conversations with his friends, just in time to begin 

 another with me before he had entered the house. 



As he now came in he took down from his shoulder 

 the large goat skin bag, which formed the elegant 

 purse for about ten pounds weight of salt, the small 

 change for the dollar he had been nearly two hours 

 employed in getting. One by one he arranged 

 the ahmulahs in a long row, like a lot of thin 

 narrow bricks, at my feet, that I might sufficiently 

 admire their bulky character, and compliment him 

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