They admitted that their chiefs would be pleased with the prospect of friendship, and now only wished to exchange tokens of good-will with me, and offered three pigs, which they hoped I would accept.

The people here are in the habit of making a present, and then demanding whatever they choose in return.

We had been forewarned of this by our guides, so I tried to decline, by asking if they would eat one of the pigs in company with us.

To this proposition they said that they durst not accede.

I then accepted the present in the hope that the blame of deficient friendly feeling might not rest with me, and presented a razor, two bunches of beads, and twelve copper rings, contributed by my men from their arms.