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articles, flowered, shelled, and otherwise ornamented; these, 

 however, rarely find their way into the interior. 



After piece goods and beads, the principal articles of traffic, 

 especially on the northern lines and the western portion of the 

 central route, are masango (in the singular sango), or brass 

 wires, called by the Arabs hnjulah. Nos. 4 or 5 are preferred. 

 They are purchased in Zanzibar, when cheap, for 12 dollars, 

 and when dear for 16 dollars per frasilah. When imported 

 up country the frasilah is divided into three or four large coils, 

 called by the Arabs daur, and by the Africans khata, for the 

 convenience of attachment to the banghy-pole. Arrived at 

 Unyanyembe they are converted by artizans into the kitindi, or 

 coil-bracelets, described in the preceding pages. Each daur 

 forms two or three of these bulky ornaments, of which there are 

 about 11 to the frasilah, and the weight is thus upwards of three 

 pounds. The charge for the cutting, cleaning, and twisting 

 into shape is about 1 doti of domestics for 50 kitindis, The 

 value of the kitindi, throughout Unyamwezi, in 1858, was 1 

 doti merkani; at Ujiji, where they are in demand for slaves and 

 ivory, the price was doubled. Thus, the kitindi, worth one 

 dollar each — when cheap, nine are bought for ten dollars — in 

 Zanzibar, rises to five dollars in the lake regions. Kitindi were 

 formerly made of copper wire; it has fallen into disuse on ac- 

 count of its expense, — at Zanzibar from 15 to 20 dollars per 

 frasilah. Large iron wires, called senyenge, are confined to 

 Ugogo and the northern countries inhabited by the Wamasai. 

 The East Africans have learned to draw fine wire, which they 

 call uzi wa shaba (brass thread) ; they also import from the coast 

 Nos. 22 to 25, and employ them for a variety of decorative pur- 

 poses, which have already been alluded to. The average price 

 of this small wire at Zanzibar is 12 dollars per frasilah. As 

 has been mentioned, sat or zinc, called by the Africans bati 

 (tin), is imported by the Wajiji. 



The principal of the minor items are coloured cloths, called by 

 the people " cloths with names : " of these, many kinds are 

 imported by every caravan. In some regions, Ugogo for in- 

 stance, the people will not sell their goats and more valuable pro- 

 visions for plain piece-goods; their gross and gaudy tastes lead 

 them to despise sober and uniform colours. The sultans inva- 

 riably demand for themselves and their wives showy goods, and 

 complete their honga or blackmail with domestics and indigo-dyed 

 cottons, which they divide amongst their followers. Often, too, 

 a bit of scarlet broadcloth, thrown in at the end of a lengthened 

 haggle, opens a road and renders impossibilities possible. 



