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their gunwales raised up with heavy teak planking. 
The largest canoe, belonging to Sheikh Abdullah bin 
Suliman, is forty-eight feet long, nine feet in the beam, 
and five feet high, with a poop for the Nakhuda 
(captain), and a small forecastle. 
Sheikh Abdullah, by assuming the air of an opulent 
ship-owner, has offended the vanity of the governor, 
Muini Kheri, who owns nine canoes. Abdullah 
christened his “ big ship ” by some very proud name ; 
A NATIVE OF RUA, A VISITOR AT UJIJI. 
the governor nicknamed it the Lazy. The Arabs and 
Wajiji, by the way, all give names to their canoes. 
The hum and bustle of the market-place, filled with 
a miscellaneous concourse of representatives from many 
tribes, woke me up at early dawn. Curious to see 
the first market-place we had come to since leaving 
Kagehyi, I dressed myself and sauntered amongst the 
buyers and sellers and idlers. 
Here we behold all the wealth of the Tanganika 
shores. The Wajiji, who are sharp, clever traders, 
having observed that the Wangwana purchased their 
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