The answer returned would be in the same style, and, if satisfactory, another note followed to conclude the bargain.

There is so much of this note correspondence carried on in Angola, that a very large quantity of paper is annually consumed.

Some other peculiarities of our guide were not so pleasing.
A land of slaves is a bad school for even the free; and I was sorry to find less truthfulness and honesty in him than in my own people.

We were often cheated through his connivance with the sellers of food, and could perceive that he got a share of the plunder from them.

The food is very cheap, but it was generally made dear enough, until I refused to allow him to come near the place where we were bargaining.