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only fpecles of weaving that is known among them. Perhaps 
the dark colour of the fleece, as difqualifying it for the dye, 
may be one reafon, and its coarfe and hairy nature may be 
another, of the little efteem in which it appears to be held. 
In return for the articles which they fell to their foreign vi- 
iitors, the Negros receive — 
Salt, from the Merchants of Agadez, 
Dutch Knives, 
Sabre Blades, 
Carpets, 
Coral, 
Beads, 
Looking-Glaffes, 
Civet, 
Imperial Dollars and Brafs — from both of which the Negro 
artifts manufadure rings and bracelets for their women. 
Fire Arms are unknown to fuch of the nations on the South 
of the Niger as the She reef has vifited ; and the reafon which he 
affigns for it is, that the Kings in the neighbourhood of the coaft, 
perfuaded that if thefe powerful inflruments of war fhould reach 
the 
