1. yd coarse scarlet cloth 16s. 50 A fine silk pang 15s. 50 ------ --- £7 8s. 500 Or the value of five prime slaves in that country. Had one of the native merchants purchased those poor creatures, he would not have paid more than two hundred of those bars for them, and probably not so much, as he would first have changed those articles for cowries[34], the current money of that country, with which he would have made the bargain. He could next sell them to the traders in the Senegal, or as profitably to their friends in Bondoo, for the following articles:— Kaarta bars. 6 pieces baft each called 10 trade bars at Galam, where 60 of those bars are given for a slave equal to 240 4½ lbs. of powder, ¼ lb. a trade bar 30 2 common guns (each 10) 20 do. 80 480 flints 40 do. 48 120 sheets common paper 20 do. 24 1 card snuff-box 1 do. 2 1 scissors 1 do. 2 1 steel 1 do. 2 1 common looking-glass 1 do. 2 ---- ---- 120[35] equal to 430[36]