14 TRAVELS IN 
to fee a favage feqiale embarraffed relpe£tSng 
the choice of her drefs, I (hewed her my 
whole package of glafs-ware, begging her to 
feleft whatever might pleafe her moft. Upon 
this oqcafion I did not enjoy the fatisfaftion 
which I expe6led; for (he laid her hands, 
without hefitating a moment, upon fome red 
and white necklaces 5 the other colours, fhe 
faid, being too like her Ikin, would produce no 
ettefl:, and were befides not at all agreeable to 
her tafte. I have always remarked that the 
favages in general fet very little value upon 
black or bllie. 1 gaye her alfo fome large 
brafs wire, for two pair of bracelets; and it 
appeared to me that fhe efteemed this article 
above all the reft. 
The reft of the w^omen did not fee thefe 
prefents without envy. They lifted up their 
hands with ecftafy; and in their admiration 
declared, with a loud voice, that the fpoufe 
of Haabas was the happieft of women, and 
the moft magnificent in jewels that ever 
they had feen in all the hordes of the Gona-« 
qua nation. 
I then diftributed the remainder of the 
glafs beads which 1 had brought with me ; 
and 
