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Value in Cowries.
A musket ---- ---- ---- 6 to 7000
A cutla.s.s ---- ---- ---- 1500 to 2000
A flint ---- ---- ---- ---- 40
Gunpowder, one bottle ---- ---- 3000
Amber No. 1. ---- ---- ---- ---- 1000
Ditto No. 2. ---- ---- ---- ---- 800
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
If sold to the Karankeas _in retail_ 30,000
_Light yellow_ cloth nearly the same as scarlet;
_blue_ not so high
Paper per sheet ---- ---- 40
A dollar ---- ---- from 6 to 12,000
Or from 1. 5s. to 2. 10s
AFRICAN PRODUCE.
A _minkalli_ of gold (12s. 6d. sterling) ---- 3000
Four minkallies are equal to 3. 3s. Value in Cowries.
_Ivory_, the very largest teeth, each ---- 10,000
The medium size ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 7,000
The smaller ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 3 or 4000
_Indigo leaves_ beat and dried in lumps larger
than ones fist, each ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 40
A prime slave, (male) ---- ---- ---- ---- 40,000
A ditto, (female) ---- ---- ---- from 80 to 100,000
A girl ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 40,000
A horse from two to ten prime male slaves
A cow (fat) ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 15,000
An a.s.s ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 17,000
A sheep ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 3 to 5,000
A fowl ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 250 to 300
As much _excellent fat beef_ as will be sufficient
for seven men one day ---- ---- ---- ---- 620
As much _good beer_ as the same number can
drink in one day ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 300
October 16th.--Modibinne and Jower arrived, and told me that they had brought a canoe from Mansong. I went to see it, and objected to one half of it, which was quite rotten. They sent up to Sego for another half; but when it arrived, it would not fit the one already sent. I was therefore forced to send Isaaco again to Sego; and as Mansong had requested me by Modibinne to sell him any spare arms I might have, I sent two blunderbusses, two fowling pieces, two pair of pistols, and five unserviceable muskets; requesting in return that Mansong would either send a proper canoe, or permit me to purchase one that I might proceed on my journey. Isaaco returned on the 20th with a large canoe; but half of it was very much decayed and patched, I therefore set about joining the best half to the half formerly sent; and with the a.s.sistance of Abraham Bolton (private) took out all the rotten pieces; and repaired all the holes, and sewed places; and with eighteen days _hard labour, changed the_ Bambarra canoe into _His Majesty's schooner Joliba_; the length forty feet, breadth six feet; being flat bottomed, draws only one foot water when loaded.
