TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
her child, with the intention of restoring them 
to their family, and had paid for each of them a 
larger sum in merchandize than is generally 
considered the ransom of a slave taken in war, 
but in reality amounting to a mere trifle when 
put in competition with the liberty of a fellow- 
creature, as will appear by the following state- 
ment : — 
ARTICLES PAID FOR THE WOMAN AND HER CHILD. 
_ England. C^<1"^^ 1" to 
J pieces of blue India 7 1 A^\^ p.i • ^ 
^^^^ > 75s. < 40 bars, of the nomi- )- 120 
nal value of 1 s. 6d. ea. 
SOlbs. trade gunpowder 30s. of the same bars 300 
1000 common flints 12s. 10 one bar 100 
1. yd coarse scarlet cloth 16s 50 
A fine silk pang 15s 50 
c£7 8s. 500 
Or the value of five prime slaves in that coun- 
try. Had one of the native merchants purchas- 
ed those poor creatures, he would not have paid 
more than two hundred of those bars for them, 
and probably not so much, as he would first have 
changed those articles for cowries the current 
money of that country, with which he would 
have made the bargain. He could next sell 
them to the traders in the Senegal, or as profit- 
ably to their friends in Bondoo, for the follow- 
ing articles : — 
* Shells. 
