They have slaves with them to carry their goods, and when they reach a spot where they can easily buy others, they settle down and begin the traffic, and at once cultivate grain.

So much of the land lies waste, that no objection is ever made to any one taking possession of as much as he needs; they can purchase a field of cassava for their present wants for very little, and they continue trading in the country for two or three years, and giving what weight their muskets possess to the chief who is most liberal to them.
The first day's march led us over a rich, well-cultivated plain.

This was succeeded by highlands, undulating, stony, and covered with scraggy trees.

Many banks of well rounded shingle appear.

The disintegration of the rocks, now going on, does not round off the angles; they are split up by the heat and cold into angular fragments.