per pound, for a second-hand musket worth 10s.

I, being sixty miles distant, did not witness this attempt at barter, but, anxious to enable my countrymen to drive a brisk trade, told the Makololo to sell my ten tusks on their own account for whatever they would bring.

Seventy tusks were for sale, but, the parties not understanding each other's talk, no trade was established; and when I passed the spot some time afterward, I found that the whole of that ivory had been destroyed by an accidental fire, which broke out in the village when all the people were absent.

Success in trade is as much dependent on knowledge of the language as success in traveling.
I had brought with me as presents an improved breed of goats, fowls, and a pair of cats.

A superior bull was bought, also as a gift to Sekeletu, but I was compelled to leave it on account of its having become foot-sore.