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of the Sestos, where he began to trade. He then 
proceeded along the grain and gold coasts, touch- 
ing at every place of consequence without any 
memorable incident occurring. He brought home 
with him upwards of 400 pounds weight of gold, 
36 butts of grains (guinea pepper), and 250 ele- 
phants' teeth. The elephant seems to have 
struck the crew with peculiar admiration. They 
brought home a head, the skul] alone of which 
weighed two hundred weight ; and a man could 
scarcely lift it from the ground. As to the man- 
ners of the people, it is observed, that " their 
" princes and noblemen use to pounce and raise 
" their skins in divers formes, as it were branch- 
" ed damaske." Although the people, too, go 
almost naked, yet they are in a manner laden 
with bracelets, collars, hoops, and chains. Some 
of these were of enormous weight j but ** al- 
" though they are in a manner made lame there- 
" by, yet will they by no means leave them off." 
They are said to be very sharp in bargaining, and 
insist upon being treated with civility. One of 
the sailors having stolen a cat from a place whence 
they were departing, the people at the next port 
absolutely refused to have any dealings with them, 
until this cat were either restored, or regularly 
paid for. The fleet lost in this voyage twenty- 
four men. 
