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more quickly than usual, for Qualla had hit on the expedient 

 of using a metal measure which held twice as much as the one 

 hitherto employed. The natives shook their heads when they 

 found that for the same sized sack full (they used bags and 

 sacks made of goat skins) they received only half as much as 

 they used to ; but they made no further efforts to solve the 



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riddle. We bought a,bout four pints of the best quality of dhurra 

 for one string of ordinary beads. The red same-same beads, 

 of which we had but a few left, were in great demand, and for 

 them we got triple measure of grain. The blue [madschi haliari) 

 beads were also much liked, but the white ones no one cared 

 for particularly. The Eeshiat would have nothing whatever to 

 do with them, and we only got rid of them here by paying for 



