"Had they aught like these ?" The Indian seemed to say they had not, but would like to have.

He looked about for something with which to trade, a parrot, or heap of cakes, or ball of cotton.

I thought that it was the box of boxes that he extremely wished, but the Admiral thought it was the spicery, and that he must have known them wherever he got the gold.

"Were they found yonder ?" The Admiral stretched arm out over blue sea and the Indian followed his gesture.

He shot out his own arm, "South--southwest--west," nodded the Admiral.