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that such a city should exist without some regular 
mode of publicly exposing goods to sale ; but it is 
very probable that this may be clone, not in shops, 
according to the European sense of the term, but 
upon booths or stalls in a public market, as ap- 
pears by Park's report to be practised at Sansand- 
ing. Whether these are to be called shops or not, 
becomes then a mere verbal distinction. 
At about 200 yards to the south-east of the 
town passes a river, called La Mar Zarah, about 
three quarters of a mile wide, and flowing, as 
Adams conceives, to the south-west. About two 
miles south of the town it passes between high 
mountains, where its breadth is contracted to half 
a mile. Some observations upon this river, and 
the direction in which it flows, will be introduced 
on a future occasion. It is navigated by canoes, 
composed of fig trees hollowed out, and the largest 
of which is ten feet long, and will not contain 
above three men. In the narrative, they are de- 
scribed merely as fishing-boats ; but M. Dupuis 
thinks Adams described them to him as setting 
sail, often by ten or twenty at a time, for slaves 
and merchandise. • 
The hunting of slaves appears to be reduced to a 
regular system. About once a month, armed men, 
to the number of a hundred or more, and at one 
time five hundred, marched out for this purpose. 
They were usually absent from a week to a month. 
