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regularity which prevailed, as well as at the vaft quantities of mer- 

 chandife, which thofe who attended us were afTiduous in pointing out. 

 Each kind had its particular place, which was diftinguiflied by a fign. 

 The articles confifted of gold, filver, jewels, feathers, mantles, cho- 

 colate, flcins dreffed and undreffed, fandals, and other manufactures of 

 the roots and fibres of nequen, and great numbers of male and female > 

 flaves, fome of whom were faftened by the neck, in collars, to long . 

 poles. The meat market was ftocked with fowls, game, and dogs. 

 Vegetables, fruits, articles of food ready dreffed, fait, bread, honey, 

 and fweet paftry made in various ways, were alfo fold here. Other 

 places in the fquare were appointed to the fale of earthenware, wooden 

 houfehold furniture fuch as tables and benches, firewood, paper, fweet 

 canes filled with tobacco mixed with liquid amber, copper axes and 

 working tools, and wooden vcffcls highly painted. Numbers of wo- 

 men fold filli, and little loaves made of a certain mud which they find 

 in the lake, and which refemblcs cheefe. '^T'he makers of fi:one blades 

 w^ere bufily employed fliaping them out of the rough material, and 

 the merchants who dealt in gold, had the metal in grains as it came 

 from the mines, in tranfparent tubes, fo that they could be reckoned, 

 and the gold was valued at fo many mantles, or fo many xiquipils of 

 cocoa, according to the fize of the quills. The entire fquare was in- 

 clofcd in piazzas, under which great quantities of grain were flored, 

 and where were alfo fliops for various kinds of goods. I muft apo- 

 loo-ize for addino:, that boat loads of human ordure were on the borders . 

 of the adjoining canals, for the purpofe of tanning leather, which they 

 faid could not be done without it. Some may laugh at this, but I 

 affert the fa6t is as I have ftated it, and moreover, upon all the public 

 roads, places for pafiengers to refort to, were built of canes, and 

 thatched with fhraw or grafs, in order to colledt this material. 



The courts of juftice, where three judges fat, occupied a part of 

 the fquare, their under officers being in the market, infpecfting the 

 merchandife. 



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