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verandah, ten feet wide and forty feet long, runs along 
a portion of the front, and affords ample space for the 
accommodation of his visitors on the luxurious carpets. 
The building is constructed of sun-dried brick plastered 
over neatly with clay. The great door is a credit to his 
carpenter, and his latticed windows are a marvel to the 
primitive native trader from Uliha or Uvinza. The 
courtyard behind the house contains the huts of the 
slaves, kitchens, and cow-house. 
By his Arab friends Sheikh Mohammed bin Gharib is 
regarded as an enterprising man, a good friend, but too 
liberal to his slaves, for which reason they say he is on 
the verge of bankruptcy. He is so much in debt that 
he has no credit at Zanzibar. 
There is a good deal of jealousy between the Arabs 
of Ujiji, which sometimes breaks out into bloodshed. 
When Say id bin Habib enters Ujiji, trouble is not far 
off. The son of Habib has a large number of slaves, 
and there are some fiery souls amongst them, who resent 
the least disparagement of their master. A bitter 
reproach is soon followed by a vengeful blow, and then 
the retainers and the chiefs of the Montagues and 
Capulets issue forth with clubs, spears, and guns, and 
Ujiji is all in an uproar, not to be quieted until the 
respective friends of the two rivals carry them bodily 
away to their houses. On Arabs, Wangwana, and 
slaves alike I saw the scars of feuds. 
Abdullah bin Suliman and his partisans are settled in 
Ivasimbu, because Muini Kheri’s hot-headed young Arab 
relations, Bana Makombe and Muini Hassan, arc for 
ever endangering the peace by their insolence. The 
feud began by a slave of Abdullah’s having attempted 
to stab Bana Makombe, because the haughty young 
Arab had spurned him once with his foot. Only a few 
drops of the bluest blood from the aristocracy of Sa’adani 
were drawn in the happily abortive attempt, but the 
aristocrats mustered in force. The coast Arabs residing 
at Kigoma advanced towards Ujiji with 300 guns, and 
called upon the governor to arm to avenge the blood 
that had been shed. The governor, however, called 
