This Rule Of Traffic He Absolutely
Refused, And Would Not Suffer His People To Buy Any Thing But Basins Of
Brass Or Latten; So That We Sold That Day 74 Brass Basins For About Half
An Angel Weight Each, And Nine White Basins For About A Quarter Of An
Angel Each.
We shewed them some of all our other wares, but they did not
care for any of them.
About two o'clock, P.M. the chief returned again,
and presented me a hen and two great roots, which I accepted, and he
then made me understand by signs, that many people would come from the
country that night to trade with me, who would bring great store of
gold. Accordingly about 4 o'clock there came about 100 men under 3
chiefs, all well equipped with darts and bows; and when they came to us,
every man stuck his dart into the ground in token of peace, all the
chiefs having their stools with them, sat down, after which they sent a
youth on board our boat who brought a measure of an ell, a quarter and a
sixteenth, making us understand that they would have four times that
measure in cloth for the weight in gold of an angel and 12 grains. I
offered him two ells for that weight, for which I had before demanded
two angels; but this he despised, and stuck to the four measures, being
5-1/4 ells. When it grew late and I motioned to go away, he came to four
ells for the above weight, and as he and I could not agree we went back
to the ships.
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