Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . o purchase anything, repaii^s to Nyangwe, to buy and sell gain. Every one, says Dr. Livingstone, is there in dead ear-nest ; little time is lost in friendly greetings. Vendors of fish run aboutwath little potsherds full of snails or small fishes—smoke-dried and spittedon twigs—or other relishes, to exchange for cassava roots, dried afterbeing steeped about three days in water; potat
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . o purchase anything, repaii^s to Nyangwe, to buy and sell gain. Every one, says Dr. Livingstone, is there in dead ear-nest ; little time is lost in friendly greetings. Vendors of fish run aboutwath little potsherds full of snails or small fishes—smoke-dried and spittedon twigs—or other relishes, to exchange for cassava roots, dried afterbeing steeped about three days in water; potatoes, vegetables, or grain,bananas, flour, palm-oil, fowls, salt, pepper, all are bartered back andforth in the same manner. Each individual is intensely anxious to trade;those who have other articles are particularly eager to barter them forrelishes, and are positive in their assertions of the goodness or badnessof each article as market-people seem to be in conscience bound to beeverywhere. The sweat may be seen standing in great beads on their faces. Cocks,hanging with thgir heads down across their shoulders, contribute theirbravest crowing, and pigs squeal their loudest. Iron knobs, drawn out. (407) 408 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. at each end to show the goodness of the metal, are exchanged for llotbof the Muabe palm. They have a large funnel of basket-work below thevessel holding the wares, and slip the goods down if they are not to beseen. They dealt fairly, and when differences aroGe they were easilysettled by the men interfering or pointing to me; they appeal to eachother, and have a strong sense of natural justice. Gay Men and Hard-working- Women. With so much food changing hands amongst the three thousandattendants, much benefit is derived: some come from twenty to twenty-five miles. The men flaunt about in gaudy-colored lambas of manyfolded kilts—the women work the hardest—the potters slap and ringtheir earthenware all around, to show that there is not a single fl
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