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rous names, which prefent no analogy between 
them and the thing they exprefs. For fm'ely 
the trueft principles of nomenclature are thofe 
which beft paint the objedts they are intended 
to make known. 
I never faw any where fo beautiful a breed 
of goats as among the Koraquas. I purchafed 
feveral of them, which were added to my 
flock. When I paffed through the diftridi: of 
the Twenty-four- Rivers, my friend Liewen- 
berg had mentioned thefe animals, which he 
knew only by report, and he begged me, if I 
could, to bring him a male. Having found 
one that was really remarkable, both on ac* 
count of its fize and the length and breadth of 
its horns, I purchafed it for my friend, at the 
expence of a nail of a moderate fize, and a 
few glafs beads. 
With nails of different fizes I in like man- 
ner procured twenty-one oxen for my wag- 
gons. The favages fliewed the utmoft avidity 
to obtain the fmalleft bits of iron, becaufe they 
'ferved to make points for their affagays or their 
arrows. 
Notwithftanding their great fondnefs for 
drefs, they fet more value on that metal than 
on 
