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CHEAPNESS OF LABOUE. 



Chap. XX. 



The lower figures are engaged in spinning in the real African 

 method, and the weavers in the left-hand corner have their web 

 in the An<2;olese fashion. 



Ancient Spinning and Weaving, perpetuated in Africa at the present day. 

 From Wilkinson's ' Ancient Egyptians,' pp. 85, 86. 



Numbers of other articles are brought for sale to these sleeping- 

 places. The native smiths there carry on their trade. I bought 

 ten very good table-knives made of country iron for two pence 

 each. 



Labour is extremely cheap, for I was assured that even car- 

 penters, masons, smiths, &c, might be hired for fourpence a day, 

 and agriculturists would gladly work for half that sum.* 



* In order that the reader may understand the social position of the people 

 of this country, I here give the census of the district of Golungo Alto for 

 the year 1854, though the numbers are evidently not all furnished : — 



23S householders or yeomen. 

 4224 patrons, or head-men of 

 several hamlets. 

 23 native chiefs or soy as. 

 292 macotas or councillors. 

 5838 carriers. 

 126 carpenters. 

 72 masons. 



300 shoemakers. 

 181 potters. 



25 tailors. 



12 barbers. 

 206 iron-founders. 

 486 bellows-blowers. 

 586 coke-makers. 

 173 iron-miners. 



1 84 soldiers 



