| I know almost every island where trade can be got, and the price to a cowrie that should be paid. |
| Their leathern collars are covered with cowrie shells sewn on them in various fantastic patterns. |
| Islands are denoted on this wonderful piece of native work by cowrie shells fastened to the framework. |
| A hundred years ago you could still pay your taxes in Uganda in cowrie shells. |
| To play the game, there are a variety of options, tamarind seeds, cowrie shells, beads, even small stones as affordability waxes and wanes. |
| The folly of the gambling savage, who stakes his liberty against a handful of cowrie shells is nothing to it. |
