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mestics, 653 blue-cottons, and 20 coloured cloths, 

 principally Debwani, Barsati, and Subai, as presents 

 to chiefs. The supply of beads was represented by 

 one load of ububu or black-porcelains — afterwards 

 thrown away as useless — half a Frasilah (17'5 pounds) 

 of "locust-legs," or pink-porcelains, purchased from 

 Sailum bin Hamid, and eight Kartasat or papered- 

 bundles of the heavy and expensive " town-breakers," 

 vermilion or coral -porcelains, amounting to seventy 

 Funclo, each of which covered as a rule the day's minor 

 expenses. The other stores were the fifty-four Jembe 

 purchased at Msene, besides a few brought from 

 Usukuma by my companion. These articles are use- 

 ful in making up kuhonga or blackmail ; in Ugogo and 

 Usagara, which is their western limit, they double in 

 value, and go even further than a white cotton-cloth. 

 Finally, we had sixteen cows, heifers, and calves, bought 

 in Usukuma by my companion, at the rate of six 

 domestics per head. We expected them to be service- 

 able as presents, and meanwhile to add materially to 

 our comfort by a more regular supply of milk than 

 the villages afford. But, alas ! having neglected to 

 mark the animals, all were changed — a fact made 

 evident by their running dry after a few days: the 

 four calves presently died of fatigue ; whenever an 

 animal lay down upon the road its throat was sum- 

 marily cut, others were left to stray and be stolen, and 

 the last bullock preserved for a sirloin on Chris tm * s- 

 was prematurely lost. A small per-centage proved 

 useful as tribute to the chiefs of Ugogo, and served as 

 rations when grain was unprocurable. The African, 

 however, looks upon meat, not as " Posho " — daily 

 bread — but as kitoweyo — kitchen : two or three 

 pounds of beef merely whet his teeth for the usual 



