A useless musket he had bought at one of the above places was offered us for a little cloth.

Having received a present of food from him, a railway rug was handed to him: he looked at it--had never seen cloth like that before--did not approve of it, and would rather have cotton cloth.

"But this will keep you warm at night."-- "Oh, I do not wish to be kept warm at night."-- We gave him a bit of cotton cloth, not one-third the value of the rug, but it was more highly prized.

His people refused to sell their fowls for our splendid prints and drab cloths.

They had probably been taken in with gaudy-patterned sham prints before.