376 TRAVELS IN 
houghou^ and which has a very agreeable odor. 
Their faces were all painted in a different 
manner, and each of them made me fome 
fmall prefent. One gave me oftrich's eggs, 
another a young lamb, and forae offered me 
an abundant provifion of milk in bafkets 
which appeared to be made of ofier. Thefe 
Utenfils aftoniihed me much. Milk in baf- 
" kets ! " faid I: "fuch an invention undoubt- 
ediy announces a great deal of ingenuity ! 
And calling to mind thofe milk veflels made 
of copper, which were formerly ufed at Paris, 
before they were profcribed by the wlfdom of 
the police, I perceived, on comparing them 
with the former, how inferior a great people^ 
with all their arts, their learned men, and their 
Louvre, often are, in refped of their fimpleft 
wants, to thofe whom they affeft to defpife. 
Thefe pretty baikets are woven of fo deli- 
cate reeds, and fo clofe in their texture, that 
they may be employed in carrying vv^ater ; on 
this account I found them of very great fervice 
afterwards. The chief of the Gonaquas in- 
formed me that they w^re made by the 
CafFres, from whom they procured thern by 
giving them other things in exchange. 
The chief, who was named Haabas^ made 
me 
