We have often seen cases of humpback, but this was the only case of this kind of curvature we had met with.

Mpande accompanied us himself in his own vessel, till we had an opportunity of purchasing a fine large canoe elsewhere.

We paid what was considered a large price for it: twelve strings of blue cut glass neck beads, an equal number of large blue ones of the size of marbles, and two yards of grey calico.

Had the beads been coarser, they would have been more valued, because such were in fashion.
Before concluding the bargain the owner said "his bowels yearned for his canoe, and we must give a little more to stop their yearning." This was irresistible.

The trading party of Sequasha, which we now met, had purchased ten large new canoes for six strings of cheap coarse white beads each, or their equivalent, four yards of calico, and had bought for the merest trifle ivory enough to load them all.