IN WBSXEKN AFRICA. 
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ited, a present of a goat, a piece of soap, and six 
country cloths. The goat, soap, and each one of 
the cloths were emblematical of some specific 
thing, which the messenger who brought them ex- 
plained to Mr. B. at the time. A great variety of 
things are thus represented, and this assists them 
not a little to make plain what their defective 
language alone would fail to do. 
