it by. At last one of the negroes, by his order, laid forty little stones
one by another, to show us how many days we should travel, and find
provisions sufficient.

Then I showed him our baggage, which was very heavy, particularly our
powder, shot, lead, iron, carpenters' tools, seamen's instruments, cases of
bottles, and other lumber. He took some of the things up in his hand to
feel the weight, and shook his head at them; so I told our people they must
resolve to divide their things into small parcels, and make them portable;
and accordingly they did so, by which means we were fain to leave all our
chests behind us, which were eleven in number.

Then he made signs to us that he would procure some buffaloes, or young
bulls, as I called them, to carry things for us, and made signs, too, that
if we were weary, we might be carried too; but that we slighted, only were
willing to have the creatures, because, at last, when they could serve us
no farther for carriage, we might eat them all up if we had any occasion
for them.

I then carried him to our bark, and showed him what things we had here. He
seemed amazed at the sight of our bark, having never seen anything of that
kind before, for their boats are most wretched things, such as I never saw
before, having no head or stern, and being made only of the skins of goats,
sewed together with dried guts of goats and sheep, and done over with a
kind of slimy stuff like rosin and oil, but of a most nauseous, odious
smell; and they are poor miserable things for boats, the worst that any
part of the world ever saw; a canoe is an excellent contrivance compared to
them.

But to return to our boat. We carried our new prince into it, and helped