The Arab and the African; . They came into myhut and sat in a semicircle on the ground, and afterhaving cleaned their teeth with a piece of stickbroken up into fibres at the end, and tried to soilmy mud floor by spitting upon it, they commencedconversation. I could only understand one questionput by the leading man. It related to a structurewhich evidently was new to his experience. Bwana{master), he said, in an interested tone, how muchdid your trousers cost ? Saadani or some other coast town being the start-ing point for the march into the interior, the portershere receive their food-money o
The Arab and the African; . They came into myhut and sat in a semicircle on the ground, and afterhaving cleaned their teeth with a piece of stickbroken up into fibres at the end, and tried to soilmy mud floor by spitting upon it, they commencedconversation. I could only understand one questionput by the leading man. It related to a structurewhich evidently was new to his experience. Bwana{master), he said, in an interested tone, how muchdid your trousers cost ? Saadani or some other coast town being the start-ing point for the march into the interior, the portershere receive their food-money or posho for threedays in advance, at the rate of five pice (fivefarthings) a day each man. For the first tenmarches from the coast the natives will take pice inpayment, beyond that distance cloth. At the starta day is quite taken up in paying the posho, dividingthe loads, hiring new porters to replace those whohave failed at the last moment, and making all finalarrangements. The next day the start up country isusually a:^^
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