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In other parts of the Gambia valley eight subordinate comptoirs, including Jilifri or Gilofre, traded for hides and bees'-wax, ivory, slaves, and gold. After the African Company was abolished it passed over to the Crown, and the station was transferred to its graveyard, Sainte-Marie de Bathurst. Printed in Churchill's Collection. It was the head-centre of trade and its principal defence.
As I was trying to persuade my men to move on to the bank in spite of these people, a young half-caste Portuguese sergeant of militia, Cypriano di Abreu, made his appearance, and gave the same advice. He had come across the Quango in search of bees'-wax.
"On the water!" she repeated. "Not I. Nothing half so pleasant, I assure you. I wish we had! for anything so slow as the whole performance on dry land, I never yet experienced. I danced five dances, none of them nice ones I hate dancing on turf and I had a warm-water ice and some jelly that tasted of bees'-wax. What became of you? We couldn't find you anywhere to get the carriage.
It was therefore with much excitement that he learned from a party of bees'-wax hunters, on the second morning of their expedition, that a large male mias had been seen that very day. Towards the afternoon they found the spot that had been described to them, and a careful examination began.
The principal trade of Gallabat, which is the market-place for all commerce between Abyssinia and the Egyptian provinces, is in cotton, coffee, bees'-wax, and hides. Coffee is brought in large quantities by the Abyssinian merchants, who buy cotton in exchange, for the manufacture of clothes according to their own fashion.
In continuing our W.N.W. course, we met many parties of native traders, each carrying some pieces of cloth and salt, with a few beads to barter for bees'-wax. They are all armed with Portuguese guns, and have cartridges with iron balls. When we meet we usually stand a few minutes. They present a little salt, and we give a bit of ox-hide, or some other trifle, and then part with mutual good wishes.
Lowndes and her daughter, when Ellen came in and briefly gave her aunt's message. "Bees'-wax," said Mrs. Lowndes "well, I don't know How much does she want?" "I don't know, Ma'am, exactly: she said a pretty good piece." "What's it for, do you know, honey?" "I believe it's to put in some tallow for candles," said Ellen; "the tallow was too soft, she said."
Then I'll tell you a piece of my mind. The priest is invoked to compel unwilling subscribers: Would you like to be sent, in the shape of a ghost, To be pokered by demons and browned like a toast? Or be hung in a blaze with a hook in your backs, Till you all melt away like a cake of bees'-wax?
"No; she makes the bees'-wax herself," said Miss Fortune, in the tone she always took when anybody presumed to suppose she might be mistaken in anything. "How much shall I ask for?" said Ellen. "Oh, I don't know a pretty good piece." Ellen was not very clear what quantity this might mean. However, she wisely asked no more questions, and set out upon her walk.
Our object in trading was to obtain palm-oil, bees'-wax, gold dust, and ivory, in exchange for Manchester and Birmingham goods; and for this purpose we had already visited several places on the coast, picking up such quantities as could be obtained at each of them.
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