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bottle not being specified by Mr. Park. Supposing 
them to be quart bottles, they would contain 21bs. of gun- 
powder each, which would make the price at Sansanding 
6s. Sd. per lb ; the prime cost in England being about 
Is. 6d. per lb ; making an advance of 300 per cent. As 
the profit on most of the other articles is not much more 
than 100 per cent, it seems probable that Mr. Park's 
bottles contained some larger quantity. 
The profit on the beads appears, in general, to have 
been about the rate last mentioned. The arrangoes 
for example, would have cost in this country, from about 
8s. to 10^. per hundred, and were sold at between Ws. and 
17^. — The profit on Indian baft, seems to have been 
higher than on any other article. It probably cost £1. 106\ 
for each piece, and was sold for £4. Ss. 4d. 
Among the African articles, ivory appears to be very 
cheap, being 5d. or 6d. a pound, about the tenth part of 
its price in this country. Horses are very dear ; and differ 
extremely in their prices, which vary from about £16. to 
£"80. They are probably in different degrees of estimation 
on accovmt of their breeds ; and many of them must be 
brought from great distances. The price of fat cows, at 
between £3. and £4., is proportionally much lower. Fowls 
at more than a shilling each, may be considered as dear. 
The great difference in the prices of prime male and 
female slaves, (the latter of whom are represented as double 
the value of the former) is at first sight very extraordinary, 
and might lead to a conclusion, that war is the principal 
source of slavery in that part of Africa. But it seems more 
probable, that by a prime female slave in Mr. Park's list. 
