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CHEAPNESS OF LABOUP. 
Chap. XX. 
Tlie lower figures are engaged in spinning in the real African 
method, and the weavers in the left-hand corner have their web 
in the Angolese fasliion. 
Ancient Spinning and Weaving, perpetuated in Africa at the present day. 
From Wilkinson’s ‘ Ancient Egyptians,’ pp. 85, 86. 
Numbers of other articles are brought for sale to these sleeping- 
places. The native smiths there carry on their trade. I bought 
ten very good table-knives made of country iron for two pence 
each. 
Labour is extremely cheap, for I was assured that even car¬ 
penters, masons, smiths, &c., might be hired for fourpence a day, 
and agricultmdsts would gladly work for half that sum.* 
* In order that the reader may understand the social position of the people 
of this country, 1 here give the census of the district of Golungo Alto for 
the year 1854, though the numbers are evidently not all furnished :— 
238 householders or yeomen. 
4224 patrons, or head-men of 
several hamlets. 
23 native chiefs or sovas. 
292 macotas or councillors. 
5838 carriers. 
126 carpenters. 
72 masons. 
300 shoemakers. 
181 potters. 
25 tailors. 
12 barbers. 
206 iron-founders. 
486 bellows-blowers. 
586 coke-makers. 
173 iron-miners. 
184 soldiers 
