chalk cliffs are not recommended for climbing

A diagnostic assessment

One fragment of pillar had a pommel finial with a mortise, indicating that it once held a metal object, perhaps a cross.

In the kingdom of Congo there is said to be another kind of shell current, called zimbi. Two thousand of these zimbi form a maconti or macinte; and one of the writers on Central Africa some years ago stated that two Flemish knives were deemed worth a maconti; a copper basin, two pounds in weight and twelve inches in diameter, three maconti; a fusee, ten macontis, &c.