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weapons, arrow and spear heads, and repairing 

 old guns. The leather- worker is moulding a 

 targe of rhinoceros-hide, apparently all umbo, 

 and the vendors of oil and grain, spices and 

 drugs, glass and 6 potions,' are on the alert. By 

 the way we walked into the partially-walled com- 

 pound or court representing the slave-market, 

 a bona fide affair, not like the caravanserai which 

 used to be fitted up and furnished by the Cairene 

 Dragoman for the inspection of curious tourists. 

 In 1835 a wooden cage some 20 feet square often 

 contained some 150 men, women, and children, 

 who every day were 6 knocked down ' to the 

 highest bidder in the public c place.' In those 

 times the yearly importation was 6000 to 7000. 

 The bazar was subsequently held in the Chan- 

 gani Quarter, near the Western Point ; the late 

 Sayyid, however, having forbidden, by way of 

 sop to the British Cerberus, the sale of men in 

 the streets of Zanzibar as of Maskat, it was 

 shifted to a plantation called Kirungani. As 

 this was found inconveniently distant, it mi- 

 grated to its present site. Lines of negroes 

 stood like beasts, the broker calling out 6 bazar 

 khush ! ' — the least hideous of the black faces, 

 some of which appeared hardly human, were 

 surmounted by scarlet night-caps. All were 



