The blinds were drawn, the sounds of the traffic outside were muffled and distant.

At this time, however, the Africans, who were in possession of the vessel, were in communication with the shore, and peaceably trafficking with the inhabitants for a supply of water for their intended voyage to their own country.

It is upon this belief of ours in the literal that Defoe shrewdly traffics.

MEPHISTOPHELES I thank you; for not willingly I traffic with the dead, and still aver That youth's plump blooming cheek