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THE “LOEH OF THE ISLES.” 
tlieir decision, in the articles which were offered to 
them in exchange. Mr. Bush the purser, however, 
managed them tolerably well. They seemed to be 
very shrewd, especially a young man called Yellow 
Nako, from his skin being of a lighter colour than the 
rest of his countrymen. He claimed the sovereignty 
of two of the islands, named Dam^h and Mdndoleh, in 
right of his father, Old Nako, the former chief of 
Bakwileh already mentioned. Bjeh, the son of King 
William, had asserted that his father was the lawful 
sovereign ; but when informed what Yellow Nako 
had said, he acknowledged the truth of it. 
Yellow Nako is therefore the veritable “Lord of 
Isles.” Moreover, he rejoiced in the titles of Pilot and 
Interpreter to H.M.S. ‘ Wilberforce.’ It was by his 
intervention that all our bargains were made ; and in 
estimating the price of the articles offered in barter, 
they were very suddenly depreciated, when compared 
with the value betrayed in his anxiety to obtain the 
same as a gift. On this being pointed out to him, he 
very naively said, “ Trade is trade, but dash is dash.’’ 
The lord of the isles was, however, more interested in 
the transaction than we had suspected ; for we after 
wards found they were his own goats, wliich he kept 
on the island Mondoleh, the Lieutenant-Governor of 
which, being the ostensible salesman, Nako was thus 
able to regulate his extortionate demands, by an ap- 
pearance of mediation. 
The offal of a slaughtered goat having been thrown 
