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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"In Reply, I Said, "Here Are My Cloths For Pagazis
To The Amount Of $1,750, Or 3,500 Doti, Sufficient To Give One
Hundred And Forty Men 25 Doti Each.
The most I am willing to pay
is 25 doti:
Send one hundred and forty pagazis to Unyanyembe
with my cloth and wire, and I will make your heart glad with the
richest present you have ever received." With a refreshing naivete,
the "young man" said he did not want any present, he would get
me my quota of pagazis, and then I could tell the "Wasungu" what
a good "young man" he was, and consequently the benefit he would
receive would be an increase of business. He closed his reply
with the astounding remark that he had ten pagazis at his house
already, and if I would be good enough to have four bales of cloth,
two bags of beads, and twenty coils of wire carried to his house,
the pagazis could leave Bagamoyo the next day, under charge of
three soldiers.
"For, he remarked, "it is much better and cheaper to send many
small caravans than one large one. Large caravans invite attack,
or are delayed by avaricious chiefs upon the most trivial pretexts,
while small ones pass by without notice."
The bales and the beads were duly carried to Soor Hadji Palloo's
house, and the day passed with me in mentally congratulating myself
upon my good fortune, in complimenting the young Hindi's talents
for business, the greatness and influence of Tarya Topan, and the
goodness of Mr. Webb in thus hastening my departure from Bagamoyo.
I mentally vowed a handsome present, and a great puff in my book,
to Soor Hadji Palloo, and it was with a glad heart that I prepared
these soldiers for their march to Unyayembe.
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