The goods were contained in wooden trays.

Here were dozens of women offering beads for sale of an unlimited variety of form and hue.

They varied from the tiny opaque beads of all colors used by English children for their dolls, to great cylindrical beads of variegated hues as long and as thick as the joint of a finger.
The love of the Africans for beads is surprising.

The women wear them round the wrists, the neck, and the ankles.

The occupation of threading the little beads is one of their greatest pleasures.