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one khete of coral or pink porcelain beads. One fundo 

 of the same will purchase a large bunch of plantains, 

 with which mawa or plantain- wine, and siki or vinegar 

 are made ; and the Wanyamwezi will supply about a 

 pint of milk every morning at the rate of one shukkah 

 per mensem. A kind of mud-fish is caught by the 

 slaves in the frequent pools which, during the cold 

 season, dot the course of the Gombe Nullah, lying three 

 miles north of Kazeh ; and return-caravans often bring 

 with them stores of the small fry, called Kashwa or 

 Daga'a, from the Tanganyika Lake. 



From Unyanyembe twenty marches, which are seldom 

 accomplished under twenty-five days, conduct the tra- 

 veller to Ujiji, upon the Tanganyika. Of these the 

 fifth station is Msene, the great Bandari of Western 

 Unyamwezi. It is usually reached in eight days ; and 

 the twelfth is the Malagarazi River, the western limit 

 of the fourth region. 



The traveller, by means of introductory letters to the 

 Doyen of the Arab merchants at Kazeh, can always 

 recruit his stock of country currency, — cloth, beads, and 

 wire, — his requirements of powder and ball, and his sup- 

 ply of spices, comforts, and drugs, without which travel 

 in these lands usually ends fatally. He will pay, it is 

 true, about five times their market-value at Zanzibar : 

 sugar, for instance, sells at its weight in ivory, or nearly 

 one-third more than its weight in beads. But though 

 the prices are exorbitant they preserve the buyer from 

 greater evils, the expense of porterage, the risk of loss, 

 and the trouble and annoyance of personally superin- 

 tending large stores in a land where " vir " and " fur " 

 are synonymous terms. 



And now comfortably housed within a stone- throw of 

 my new friend Shaykh Snay bin Amir, I bade adieu for 

 a time to the march, the camp, and the bivouac. Perhaps 



