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buluji, or loaf-sugar, imported from America, averages 6 annas ; 

 sukkari za mawe, or sugar-candy, fetches upon the island 5 

 dollars 50 cents per frasilah ; and the bungala, or sukkari za 

 mchanga (brown Bengal sugar), costs 3 dollars 50 cents ; gur, 

 or molasses, sells at Zanzibar for 1 dollar 25 cents per frasilah. 

 Soap is brought to Zanzibar island by the Americans, French, 

 and India merchants. 



The other articles of importation into Zanzibar, which, how- 

 ever, so rarely find their way into the interior, that they do not 

 merit detailed notice, are — rice and other cereals from Bombay 

 and Western India ; shipping materials, canvas, rigging, hempen 

 cord, planks and boards, paint, pitch, turpentine, linseed-oil, 

 bees'- wax, and tar, from America and India ; metals from Europe 

 and India; furniture from Europe and America, China and 

 Bombay ; carpets and rugs from Turkey and Persia ; mats from 

 Madagascar ; made-up clothes from Maskat and Yemen ; glass- 

 ware from Europe and America ; pottery, paper, and candles 

 from Europe and Bombay ; kuzah (water-jars) from the Persian 

 Gulf; woods and timber from Madagascar, the Mozambique, 

 and the coast as far north as Mombasah ; skins and hides from 

 the Banadir ; salt-fish (shark and others) from Oman, Hazra- 

 maut, and the Benadir ; brandy, rum, peppermint, eau de 

 Cologne, syrups and pickles, tobacco, cigars, and tea, from 

 Bombay, France, and the Mauritius; rose-water from the Gulf; 

 attar of rose and of sandal from Bombay ; dates, almonds, and 

 raisins from Arabia and the Gulf ; gums and ambergris from 

 Madagascar, the Mozambique, and the " Sayf-Tawil" (the long- 

 low coast extending from Has Awath, in N. lat. 5° 33', to Has 

 el-Khayl, N. lat. 7° 44') ; aloes and dragon's-blood from Socotra ; 

 incense, gum Arabic, and myrrh from the Somali country and 

 the Benadir; turmeric, opium, ginger, nutmegs, colombo-root, 

 cardamoms, cinnamon, aniseed, camphor, benzoin, assafcetida, 

 saltpetre, potash, blue vitriol, alum, soda, saffron, garlic, fenu- 

 greek, and other drugs and spices from Bombay and Western 

 India. 



The staple articles of the internal trade throughout the regions 

 extending from the coast of the Indian Ocean to the lakes of 

 Central Africa are comprised in slaves and cattle, salt, iron, to- 

 bacco, mats and strainers, and tree-barks and ropes. Of these, 

 all except salt have been noticed in detail in the preceding pages. 



Salt is brought down during the season from East Arabia to 

 Zanzibar by Arab dows, and is heaped up for sale on a strip of 

 clear ground under the eastern face of the gurayza or fort. It 

 is of two kinds : the fine rock salt sells at G annas per frasilah, 



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