The merchants, however, submit rather than run the risk of fighting.
The general monotony of existence at Tette is sometimes relieved by an occasional death or wedding.

When the deceased is a person of consequence, the quantity of gunpowder his slaves are allowed to expend is enormous.

The expense may, in proportion to their means, resemble that incurred by foolishly gaudy funerals in England.

When at Tette, we always joined with sympathizing hearts in aiding, by our presence at the last rites, to soothe the sorrows of the surviving relatives.

We are sure that they would have done the same to us had we been the mourners.
We never had to complain of want of hospitality.