CHAP. X. 
INTERCOURSE WITH SOME OF THE CHIEF MEN— 
THE KING PROPOSES TO BARTER FOR A MUSKET 
—THEIR POTTERY— A DANCE IN HONOR OF OUR 
ARRIVAL— THE YOUNG PEOPLE EXAMINED. 
April 7. 
MUNAMEETS called on us, while we were 
at breakfast, with a large wooden dish which 
Mr. Moffat had requested him to obtain. It was 
made from a block of wood by the Boquaina na- 
tion; it had two handles, and would contain about 
two gallons. Five or six persons came to wit- 
ness the bargain— the opinion of others being 
always asked before a contract is concluded. 
Waiting patiently till breakfast was finished, they 
amused themselves by examining some portraits 
from the Evangelical Magazine, which hung round 
the room. They found out that one of them was 
a portrait of me, which Munameets thought very 
like. Pointing to another portrait, one of them 
said it was intended for Mr. M., on which a 
woman replied, O maka ! [mawkaw] It is ^ lie ! 
Such a mode of speaking gives no offence, they 
