He visited the native traders first, and then came to me with two cocks as a present.

I spoke to him about the impolicy of treatment we had received at his hands, and quoted the example of the Bangalas, who had been conquered by the Portuguese, for their extortionate demands of payment for firewood, grass, water, etc., and concluded by denying his right to any payment for simply passing through uncultivated land.

To all this he agreed; and then I gave him, as a token of friendship, a pannikin of coarse powder, two iron spoons, and two yards of coarse printed calico.

He looked rather saucily at these articles, for he had just received a barrel containing 18 lbs.

of powder, 24 yards of calico, and two bottles of brandy, from Senhor Pascoal the Pombeiro.