Z10 TRAVELS TO DISCQVER 
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 
{mall quantities of every thing,.and not without a very 
{harp conteft and difpute, fomewhat fuperior in noife to that 
of our fifh-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 victualled 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 moft 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 kiffes in this country: Who would buy them? 
We will give you as many as you with for nothing.” And 
there was no appearance but, in that bargain, they meant 
to be very fair and liberal dealers. 
Tuz 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. 
fingle ftring 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. 
Z EASILY 
