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'industry: 



cottons, beads, and other articles which are car- 

 ried by traders into the far interior. 



Cloth is fringed by Wasawahili and slaves. 

 Many tribes, those of Chaga for instance, will 

 not take a 'Tobe' without its 'Tar&zd,' and 

 generally when a piece of stuff is given to a 

 wild man, he sits down and first unravels the 

 edge. The selvage also constitutes a highly- 

 prized ornament. 



Bill -hooks (munda), coarse sword -blades 

 (upanga), and knives (kesu) ; hatchets (skoka), 

 and hoes (jembe) — the latter two diminutive, 

 and more like playthings than working-tools — 

 are made of imported iron, and form a staple of 

 trade with the mainland. The European spade 

 and the American broad axe still await introduc- 

 tion. Those who would explore E. Africa should 

 supply themselves with a large stock of such 

 hardware, and be careful not to waste them — to 

 savages and semi-barbarians they are everywhere 

 more precious than gold. 



Split bamboo forms the brooms, and the hard 

 material tears the plaster from the walls. A 

 coarse pottery, which the saltness of the clay 

 renders peculiarly brittle, is fabricated by the 

 Wasawahili at Changani Point, and supplants 



