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principally for the use of women, with a silk border, which costs 

 from 1 to 4 dollars, 



The shazar, called throughout the interior mukunguru, is a 

 Cutch-made cotton plaid, with large or small squares, red and 

 white, or black and blue ; this cloth is an especial favourite with 

 the Wamasai tribes. The score of pieces, each 2 yards, costs 



6 dollars 25 cents. There is a dearer variety, of which each 

 piece is 3 yards long, costing 16 dollars per kori, and therefore 

 rarely soldo 



Of the last division of " cloths with names," namely those of 

 silk and cotton mixed, the most popular is the subai. It is a 

 striped stuff, with small checks between the lines, and with a 

 half-breadth of border, a complicated pattern of red, black, and 

 yellow. This cloth is used as an uzar, or loin-cloth, by the 

 middle classes of Arabs ; the tambua, taraza, or fringe, is applied 

 to the cloth with a band of gold thread at Zanzibar, by Wasa- 

 wahili. The subai, made at Maskat of Cutch cotton, varies 

 greatly in price : the cheapest, of cotton only, may be obtained 

 for 2 dollars ; the medium, generally preferred for presents to 

 great chiefs, is about 5 dollars 50 cents; whilst the most expen- 

 sive, inwoven with gold thread, ranges from 8 to 30 dollars. 



The dewli is the Indian lungi. a Surat silk, garnished with a 

 border of gold thread and a fringe at Zanzibar. It is a red, 

 yellow, or green ground, striped in various ways, and much 

 prized for uzar. The price of the cheap piece of 3*50 yards is 



7 dollars, besides the fringe, which is 2 dollars more ; the best, 

 when adorned with gold, rise to 80 dollars. 



The sabuni uzar, made in Maskat, is a silk-bordered cotton, a 

 small blue and white check ; the red and yellow edging which 

 gives it its value is about one-fifth of its breadth. The score of 

 pieces, each 2-50 yards long, varies from 25 to 50 dollars; the 

 more expensive, however, rarely find their way into the interior. 



The khesi is a rare importation from Bombay, a scarlet silk, 

 made at Tannah ; the piece sold at Bombay for 10 Co.'s rs. 

 fetches at Zanzibar 5 dols. 50 cents to 6 dollars ; this kind is 

 preferred by the Wanyamwezi chiefs ; when larger, and adorned 

 with gold stripes, it rises to 35 Co.'s rs., or 19 dollars, and is 

 prized by the Banyans and Hindis of Zanzibar. 



The masnafu is rare like the khesi; it is a mixed silk and 

 cotton cloth, of striped pattern, made at Maskat. The cheapest 

 is a piece of 1*75 yards, costing from 2 to 5 dollars, and highly 

 regarded in Unyamwezi; the larger kinds, of 2*50 yards, rise 

 from 5 to 6 dollars, and the Arabs will pay from 20 to 25 dollars 

 for those worked with gold thread. 



