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SAMUEL BAKER AND THE SLAVE TRADE 



glass beads. The piratical expedition being complete, he pays his men 

 five months' wages in advance, at the rate of forty-five piastres (nine 

 shillings) per month, and he agrees to give them eighty piastres per 

 month for any period exceeding the five months advanced. His men 

 receive their advance partly in cash and partly in cotton stuffs for 



BAKER'S ARRIVAL AT RIONGA'S ISLAND 



clothes at an exorbitant price. Every man has a strip of paper, upon 

 which is written, by the clerk of the expedition, the amount he ha§ 

 received both in goods and money, and this paper he must produce at 

 the final settlement. 



"The vessels sail about December, and on arrival at the desired 

 locality, the party disembark and proceed into the interior, until they 

 arrive at the village of some negro chief, with whom they establish an 



