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SAMUEL BAKER AND THE SLAVE TRADE 
glass beads. The piratical expedition being complete, he pays his men 
five months' wages in advance, at the rate of forty-five piastres (nine 
shillings) per month, and he agrees to give them eighty piastres per 
month for any period exceeding the five months advanced. His men 
receive their advance partly in cash and partly in cotton stuffs for 
BAKER’S ARRIVAL AT RIONGA’S ISLAND 
clothes at an exorbitant price. Every man has a strip of paper, upon 
which is written, by the clerk of the expedition, the amount he haS 
received both in goods and money, and this paper he must produce at 
the final settlement. 
“The vessels sail about December, and on arrival at the desired 
locality, the party disembark and proceed into the interior, until they 
arrive at the village of some negro chief, with whom they establish an 
