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potatoes, tomatoes, bananas and plantains, yams, beans, 
vetches, garden herbs, melons, cucumbers, sugar-cane, 
palm- wine, palm -nuts, palm-oil, goats, sheep, bullocks, 
eggs, fowls, and earthenware ; the lake-coast Wajiji 
bring their slaves, whitebait, fresh fish, ivory, baskets, 
nets, spears, bows and arrows ; the Wangwana and 
Arab slaves bring slaves, fuel, ivory, wild fruit, eggs, 
rice, sugar-cane, and honey from the Ukaranga forest. 
The currency employed consists of cloths, blue 
“ Kaniki,” white sheeting “ Merikani ” from Massachu- 
setts mills, striped or barred prints or checks, blue or 
red, from Manchester, Muscat, or Cutch, and beads, 
principally “ Sofi,” which are like black-and-white clay- 
pipe stems broken into pieces half an inch long. One 
piece is called a Masaro , and is the lowest piece of 
currency that will purchase anything. The Sofi beads 
are strung in strings of twenty Masaro, which is then 
called a Khete, and is sufficient to purchase rations for 
two days for a slave, but suffices the freeman or 
Mgwana but one day. The red beads, called Sami- 
sami, the Mutunda, small blue, brown, and white, will 
also readily be bartered in the market for provisions, 
but a discount will be charged on them, as the established 
and universal currency with all classes of natives 
attending the market is the Sofi. 
The prices at the market in 1876 were as follows : — 
Ivory per lb 
1 goat .. 
1 sheep .. 
12 fowls 
1 bullock 
1 potful — equal to 3 gallons — of wine 
1 „ „ „ „ of palm oil 
60 lbs. of grain — Mtama 
90 lbs. „ Indian corn 
i-gal. potful of honey in the comb . . 
1 slave boy between 10 and 13 years old 
1 „ girl „ 10 „ 13 
1 „ „ „ 13 18 
1 „ woman „ 18 „ 30 „ 
1 ,, „ „ 30 ,, 50 ,, 
1 „ boy „ 13 „ 18 
1 man „ 18 „ 50 
Sheeting cloths 
of 4 yards long. 
1 
2 
14 
n 
10 
2 
4 
1 
1 
1 
16 
50 to 80 
80 to 200 
80 to 130 
10 to 40 
16 to 50 
10 to £0 
