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silk, and cost 7 dollars per loin-cloth. Of late years the 

 Wanyamwezi have taken into favour the barsati or kitambi 

 banyani ; it is a thin white long cloth, called in Bombay kora 

 (Corah, or cotton piece-goods), with a narrow reddish border of 

 madder or other dye stamped in India or at Zanzibar. The piece 

 of 39 yards, which is divided into 20 shukkah, costs at Bombay 

 4*50 Co.'s rs. ; at Zanzibar 2 dollars 50 cents; and the price of 

 printing the edge is 1 dollar 75 cents. 



The dabwani is a kind of small blue and white check made at 

 Maskat ; one fourth of its breadth is a red stripe, edged with 

 white and yellow. This stuff, which from its peculiar stiffening 

 of gum appears rather like grass-cloth than cotton, is of three 

 kinds : the cheapest, dyed with Cutch colours, is much used in 

 the far interior; it costs at Zanzibar 12 dols. 50 cents per score 

 of pieces, each two and a half yards long ; — the medium quality, 

 employed in the copal trade of the coast, is stained with Euro- 

 pean dye, and superior in work ; the score of pieces, each 3 yards 

 long, costs 30 dols. ; — and the best, which is almost confined to 

 the island of Zanzibar, ranges from 40 to 45 dols. per kori. The 

 dabwani is considered in the interior nearly double the value of 

 the barsati, and it is rarely rejected unless stained or injured. 



The jamdani is a sprigged or worked muslin imported from 

 India : though much prized for turbans by the dignitaries of the 

 maritime races, it is rarely carried far up the country. At 

 Zanzibar the price of 10 yards is 1 dol., and the piece of 20 

 lengths, each sufficient for a turban, may be purchased for 15 dols. 



The bandira (flag stuff) is a red cotton bunting imported from 

 Bombay. It is prized in the interior by women. At Zanzibar 

 the price of this stuff greatly varies ; when cheap the piece of 

 28 yards may be obtained for 2 dols. 50 cents, when dear it 

 rises to 3 dols. 50 cents. It is sold by gorah of 7 J shukkahs. 



Shit, or chintz, is of many different kinds. The common 

 English is a red cotton, striped yellow and dark green; it fetches 

 from 1 dol. 50 cents to 2 dols. per piece of 28 yards, and is little 

 prized in the interior. Those preferred, especially in Unyamwezi 

 and Ujiji, are the French and Hamburg ; the former is worth at 

 Zanzibar from 4 dols. 50 cents per piece of 35 yards, to 5 dols. 

 50 cents per gorah of 10 shukkahs, and the latter from 5 dols. to 

 5 dols. 50 cents. The most expensive is the "ajemi," that used 

 by the Persians as lining for their lambswool caps ; the price is 

 from 50 cents to 1 dol. per yard, which renders it a scarce ar- 

 ticle even in Zanzibar island. 



The khuzarangi, a European cotton dyed a reddish nankeen, 

 with pomegranate rind and other colouring matters, at Maskat, 



