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The cloth being again wrung hard, is returned into the pot; and this dipping is repeated four times every day for the first four days; at the end of which period it has in common acquired a blue colour equal to the finest India baft. The Negro women, who practise dying, have generally twelve or fourteen indigo jars, so that one of them is always ready for dipping.
If you speak of a good pistol or sword, or piece of scarlet or baft, or beads or gunpowder, who made them? the white people. We sell them to the Moors; the Moors bring them to Tombuctoo, where they sell them at a higher rate. The people of Tombuctoo sell them to the people of Jinnie at a still higher price; and the people of Jinnie sell them to you.
Park, Martyn, three other white men, three slaves and myself as guide and interpreter; nine in number, to navigate the canoe: without landing we bought the slave. We went in two days to Ginne. We gave the Chief one piece of baft and went on. Being sure of their hostile intentions, we ordered them to go back; but to no effect; and were obliged to repulse them by force.
Massatan Wague advised me to give the King's only son something. I went to that prince, and gave him half a piece of white baft, and two grains of amber No. 1. I went back to the guard-house, where I passed the following night. He immediately came and took me away to his house with my people. The King addressed Sabila, and said with a nod, "Here is the business."
During our voyage I was the only one who had landed. We departed and arrived at Yaour. I was sent on shore the next morning with a musket and a sabre, to carry to the chief of the village, also with three pieces of white baft for distribution. I went and gave the Chief his present: I also gave one piece to Alhagi, one to Alhagi-biron, and the other to a person whose name I forget, all Marabous.
The customs, or duties on travellers, are very heavy; in almost every town an ass-load pays a bar of European merchandize; and at Fatteconda, the residence of the king, one Indian baft, or a musket, and six bottles of gunpowder, are exacted as a common tribute.
The articles that they generally purchase for themselves are shawls, handkerchiefs, blue baft, and other cloths for wearing round their waist, fine beaver hats, muskets, ammunition, knives, common spoons, and various fancy articles for their women.
"Yes, mynheer; not one soul baft." "There is the small boat astern; do you think you could get softly into it, haul it up to the bows, and lie there quite still? You would then hear what they said, without their thinking of it, now that it is dark." "I will try, mynheer," replied the corporal, who quitted the cabin.
Ditto No. 3. 400 Amber No. 4. 160 Ditto No. 5. 80 Ditto No. 6. 60 Coral No. 4. each stone 60 Black points, per bead 20 Red garnets, per string 40 White ditto, per string 40 Blue agates, per string 100 Round rock coral, per bead 5 Long ditto, per bead 5 Short arrangoes, per bead 40 Gold beads, per bead 10 An Indian baft 20,000 A barraloolo, or five-bar piece 8,000 Scarlet cloth 10 spans 20,000
Early this morning purchased an ass for a pistol, a baft, and a Mandingo cloth. We set out at seven o'clock. Immediately on the East of the town came to another stream flowing towards the S.S.W. It was so deep, that the whole of the bundles had to be carried over on men's heads.
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