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AFRICAN TRADE. 
for trade. He then went to Bagomoyo, on the mainland 
and received from two Banians there, whose names are to 
be unknown, quantities of opium and gunpowder, which, 
with the soap and brand}', were to be retailed by Sbereef 
on the journey. In the Bagomoyo Banian’s house, Shereef 
broke the soap boxes and stowed the contents and the 
opium in my bales of calico, in order that the pagazi or 
carriers paid by me should carry them. Other pagazi wero 
employed to carry the cases of brandy and kegs of gun- 
powder, and paid with my cloth. Henceforth, all the ex- 
penses of the journey were defrayed out of my property ; 
and while retailing the barter goods of his Banian accom- 
plices, he was in no hurry to relieve my wants, but spent 
fourteen months between the coast and Ujiji, a distance 
which could easily have been accomplished in three. 
Making every allowance for detention by sickness in the 
party, and by sending back for men to replace the first 
pagazi, who perished by cholera, the delays were quite 
shameless. Two months at one spot, two months at 
another place, and two months at a third, without reason, 
except desire to retail his brandy, etc., which some simple 
people think Moslems never drink ; but he was able to send 
back from Unyanyembe over £600 worth of ivory, the 
pagazi again paid from my stores. He then ran riot with 
the supplies, all the way purchasing the most expensive 
food for himself, his slaves, and his women, the country 
afforded. When he reached Ujiji, his retail trade for the 
Banians and himself was finished, and in defiance of his 
engagement to follow wherever I led, and men from a camp 
eight days beyond Bambarre went to Ujiji and reported to 
him that I was near and waiting for him, he refused their 
invitations to return with them. 
The Banians, who advanced their goods for retail by 
Shereef, had, in fact, taken advantage of the notorious 
East African Moslem duplicity to interpose their own 
trade. Speculation between the two Government officers, 
and almost within the shadow of the Consulate, supplants 
