250 Wild Life in Central Africa. 



Per Mensem 



Brickmakers (1000 to 1200 bricks per day) ... IDS. to 125. 



Bricklayers (according to experience) ... 75. 10155. 



Carpenters ( ,, ,, ) ... los. to 2 



Native clerks ( ,, M j 105.10305. 



Machilleros (men to carry a machilla) ... ..'. 45. 1055. 

 Interpreters (cooks and head boys often speak 



English) ... ... ... ... ... ... i os. to i 



The price of labour in Nyasaland and North-Eastern 

 Rhodesia, especially away from the Zambesi river, the 

 railway, and townships, is much more moderate than it is 

 in North-Western Rhodesia, where the prices of labour 

 seem to have followed those usual in Southern Rhodesia. 

 In the latter place a boy will often get i to 2 per 

 mensem but he will cook and work hard. In Nyasaland 

 and adjoining territories the personal servants necessary 

 follow the custom of India, but not to such a degree, and 

 one usually keeps too many boys whose time is not fully 

 employed. 



Unless European ladies are present it is not usual to 

 engage female labour, although round Blantyre the cook's 

 wife will often be able to wash and iron clothes, as she 

 may have been taught the work at the mission . 



Ladies often keep a female dhobie or washerman, and a 

 nurse, when they get one; but more often the latter is a 

 young boy who attends to the white children, and takes 

 them out for their daily coach ride and breath of fresh air. 



This youngster also bathes and amuses the male children, 

 and he will often take great interest in their welfare, and 

 be most reliable and trustworthy. 



The youngsters are more intelligent than the adults, as 

 they more readily adapt themselves to their altered 

 conditions of life in fact, some of them get too smart at 

 times and require censure. 



All labour is so cheap here that people who at home 

 have not been in a position to keep many servants will find 

 that their lives are much easier in Central Africa than they 

 could ever be in Britain. 



