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WORKERS IN IRON AND COPPER. 
Markets arc held at stated times, and the women attend 
them in large numbers, dressed in their best. They aro 
light-colored, have straight noses, finely formed heads, 
small hands and l'eel, and perfect forms ; they are keen 
traders, and look on the market as a great institution ; to 
haggle, and joke, and laugh, and cheat, seem the enjoy- 
ments of life. The population, especially west of the 
river, is prodigiously large. 
Near Loinani, the Bakuss, or Bakoous, cultivate coffee, 
and drink it highly scented with vanilla. Pood of all 
kinds is extremely abundant and cheap. The men smelt 
iron from the black oxide ore, and are very good smiths ; 
they also smelt copper from the ore, and make large orna- 
ments very cheaply. They are generally fine, tall, strap- 
ping fellows, far superior to the Zanzibar slaves, and noth- 
ing of the West Coast negro, from whom our ideas of 
Africans are chiefly derived, appears among them ; no 
prognathous jaws, barn-door mouth, nor lark heels are seen. 
Their defects arise from absolute ignorance of all the 
world ; besides, strangers never appeared among them be- 
fore. The terror that guns inspire generally among the 
Manj ema, seems to arise among the Bakuss, from an idea 
that the}’ are supernatural. The effect of a gunshot on a 
goat was shown, in order to convince them that the traders 
had power, and that the instruments they carried were not, 
as they imagined, the mere insignia of chieftainship ; they 
looked up to the skies, and offered to bring ivory to pur- 
chase the charm by which lightning was drawn down ; and 
afterwards, when the traders tried to force a passage which 
was refused, they darted aside on seeing Banyamwezi’s 
followers place the arrows in the bow-strings, but stood in 
mute amazement while the guns mowed them down in groat 
numbers. They use long spears in the thick vegetation of 
their country, with great dexterity, and they have told m# 
frankly, what was self-evident, that but for the firearms, 
not one of the Zanzibar slaves or half castes would ever 
leave the country. 
