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beyond Paroro to exchange for brass wire. N'kole is 
justly celebrated for its tobacco, though every hut 
here has its garden of it. Euanda sends her painted 
matting, goat, salt, and iron wire, and requests the 
sultan, who drives a stiff bargain, to fix the price of 
each article — as, 160 ankle-wires — a single necklace; 
a goat = twenty necklaces. The Wanyamuezi carry 
salt from their country to exchange it for the ivory 
brought by the people of Unyoro, N'kole, and Utumbi. 
Bark-cloths are not made well in Karague : the people 
of Uganda, Kittara, and Uhia excel in them. They 
are sewn in four stripes, each a foot to 1 8 inches broad, 
and, when well greased by the Wanyambo, make a most 
comfortable, becoming square shawl to keep out the 
cold and rain. During the 1861 war in Unyanyembe 
(at 5° S.) a slave might be purchased for something 
under one shilling sterling, or, if estimated in beads, 
ten necklaces. If a number of them were brought up 
(as they have been in several instances) to the equator 
and beyond it, they would each fetch a frasila, or 36 
lb. weight of ivory, equal to £12 in Zanzibar. This 
is one of the inducements for Arabs and Africans to 
speculate, but the instance is exceptional. 
Trade encounters great difficulties in such a country, 
where there are no regular laws, no roads, no carriage 
conveyance, and the caravan is liable to losses from 
heavy taxes, desertions, and attacks. For instance, 
two traders, named Sungoro and Joomah, left Karague 
while I was there for the south with a considerable 
supply of ivory. On reaching the borders of the first 
province (Usui), they sent forward to ask the sultan's 
permission to pass through his country. A demur was 
made that the party was too strong, but they would 
