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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We Have Thus Four
Pieces Of Merikani, Which Weigh 36 Lbs., And 18 Pieces Of Kaniki
Weighing Also 36 Lbs., Making A Total Of 72 Lbs., Or A Little
More Than Two Frasilahs; The Cloth Is Then Folded Singly Over These
Layers, Each Corner Tied To Another.
A bundle of coir-rope is
then brought, and two men, provided with a wooden mallet for
beating and pressing the bale, proceed to tie it up with as much
nicety as sailors serve down rigging.
When complete, a bale is a solid mass three feet and a half long,
a foot deep, and a foot wide. Of these bales I had to convey
eighty-two to Unyanyembe, forty of which consisted solely of the
Merikani and Kaniki. The other forty-two contained the Merikani
and coloured cloths, which latter were to serve as honga or tribute
cloths, and to engage another set of pagazis from Unyanyembe to
Ujiji, and from Ujiji to the regions beyond.
The fifteenth day asked of me by Ali bin Salim for the procuring
of the pagazis passed by, and there was not the ghost of a pagazi
in my camp. I sent Mabruki the Bullheaded to Ali bin Salim, to
convey my salaams and express a hope that he had kept his word.
In half an hour's time Mabruki returned with the reply of the
Arab, that in a few days he would be able to collect them all;
but, added Mabruki, slyly, "Bana, I don't believe him.
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