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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During The Six Weeks I Encamped At Bagamoyo, Waiting For My Quota
Of Men, This Lad Of Twenty Gave Me Very Much Trouble.
He was
found out half a dozen times a day in dishonesty, yet was in no
way abashed by it.
He would send in his account of the cloths
supplied to the pagazis, stating them to be 25 paid to each; on
sending a man to inquire I would find the greatest number to have
been 20, and the smallest 12. Soor Hadji Palloo described the
cloths to be of first-class quality, Ulyah cloths, worth in the
market four times more than the ordinary quality given to the
pagazis, yet a personal examination would prove them to be the
flimsiest goods sold, such as American sheeting 2 1/2 feet broad,
and worth $2.75 per 30 yards a piece at Zanzibar, or the most
inferior Kaniki, which is generally sold at $9 per score. He
would personally come to my camp and demand 40 lbs. of Sami-Sami,
Merikani, and Bubu beads for posho, or caravan rations; an
inspection of their store before departure from their first camp
from Bagamoyo would show a deficiency ranging from 5 to 30 lbs.
Moreover, he cheated in cash-money, such as demanding $4 for
crossing the Kingani Ferry for every ten pagazis, when the fare
was $2 for the same number; and an unconscionable number of pice
(copper coins equal in value to 3/4 of a cent) were required for
posho.
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