I first saw them as the merchants were driving them in, about two days ago.

They came in a large body, and were tied together at the neck with leather thongs, which permitted them to walk at the distance of about a yard from one another.

Many of them were loaden with elephants teeth, which had been purchased at the same time.

All of them had bags, made of skin, upon their shoulders; for as they were to travel, in their way from the great mountains, through barren sands and inhospitable woods for many days together, they were obliged to carry water and provisions with them.

Notwithstanding this, many of them perished, some by hunger, but the greatest number by fatigue, as the place from whence they came, is at such an amazing distance from this, and the obstacles, from the nature of the country, so great, that the journey could scarcely be completed in seven moons." When this relation was finished, and we had been looking stedfastly for some time on the croud that was going by, we lost sight of that peculiarity of feature, which we had before remarked.