Two days in the water, they told the captain, ought to do the business.

Then they would kill her, build the fire, and invite in a few friends.
After half an hour of bargaining, during which Captain Van Horn had insisted on the worthlessness of the parcel, he had bought a fat pig worth five dollars and exchanged it for her.

Thus, since he had paid for the pig in trade goods, and since trade goods were rated at a hundred per cent.

profit, the girl had actually cost him two dollars and fifty cents.
And then Captain Van Horn's troubles had begun.

He could not get rid of the girl.