How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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Within The City, Negro Carriers May Be Heard At All Hours, In
Couples, Engaged In The Transportation Of Clove-Bags,
Boxes of
merchandise, &c., from store to "godown" and from "go-down" to
the beach, singing a kind of monotone
Chant for the encouragement
of each other, and for the guiding of their pace as they shuffle
through the streets with bare feet. You may recognise these men
readily, before long, as old acquaintances, by the consistency
with which they sing the tunes they have adopted. Several times
during a day have I heard the same couple pass beneath the windows
of the Consulate, delivering themselves of the same invariable tune
and words. Some might possibly deem the songs foolish and silly,
but they had a certain attraction for me, and I considered that
they were as useful as anything else for the purposes they were
intended.
The town of Zanzibar, situate on the south-western shore of the
island, contains a population of nearly one hundred thousand
inhabitants; that of the island altogether I would estimate at not
more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, including all races.
The greatest number of foreign vessels trading with this port are
American, principally from New York and Salem. After the American
come the German, then come the French and English. They arrive
loaded with American sheeting, brandy, gunpowder, muskets, beads,
English cottons, brass-wire, china-ware, and other notions, and
depart with ivory, gum-copal, cloves, hides, cowries, sesamum,
pepper, and cocoa-nut oil.
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