SERVILE RACES. 



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or headmen, who rendered themselves responsible 

 to the merchant. Being capable of considerable 

 although desultory exertion, they get a living by 

 day-work on board European ships, and they 

 prefer this employment because they receive 

 rations of rice and treacle, with occasionally a 

 bit of beef or pork. When there is no work upon 

 the plantation its slaves are jobbed at the rate of 

 8 to 10 pice per diem, and of this sum they re- 

 ceive 2, about the wage of an Indian ' biggaree.' 

 Of course they do their best to defraud their 

 masters of the hire. 



The following are the distant races of whom 

 a few serviles find their way to Zanzibar. 



Circassians and white slave girls being exceed- 

 ingly rare, are confined to the harems of the 

 rulers. They are brought from Persia, and are 

 as extravagant in tastes as they are expensive in 

 prime cost. A 6 Jariyeh bayza ' soon renders the 

 house of a moderately rich man unendurable. 



Abyssinians, or rather Africans from Gura- 

 gue, Amhara, and the continent north of the 

 parallel of Cape Guardafui, are mostly imported 

 from El Ilejaz. Boys and lads range from £50 

 to §100 : girls, from $G0 to §150. The former 

 are circumcised, and having a good reputation 

 for honesty, intelligence, and amiability, they are 



