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This horde had many ; but I could procure 
only feven, for want of merchandife. The 
people wiflied for tobacco and dacca (the leaves 
of hemp) ; commodities with which I was un- 
able to fupply them. I had ftill a tolerable 
quantity of beads, but upon thefe they fet very 
iittle value. 
Fortunately the women obferved among my 
wares fome red and white beads about the fize 
/ of a hazel nut, which pleafed them fo much by 
their variegated colour, that they would have 
given for them all they pofTefTed. The men 
too appeared equally fond of them. Thefe, 
therefore, a dozen or two of large nails, and 
fome brafs wire for bracelets, anfwered my 
purpofe of barter. 
To the greater part of my readers, perhaps, 
thefe remarks will feem trivia! ; but to tra- 
vellers who undertake, like me, to vifit Africa, 
they are of great importance, and, on that ac- 
count, I ought by no means to omit them. 
On quitting the horde, I difmiifed the guides 
who had conducted me thither, and took 
others to fliow me the way to the next. We 
bent our courfe to the eaft, following the di- 
rection of tlie mountains ; but an accident hap- 
pened 
