Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in Zanzibarevery day among the bazars, in the market-placeand along the many roads and avenues that lead infrom the country. One morning I went outsidethe city and on the famous Mnazi Moji road I cameupon a gang of women at work upon a new high-way. The manager of the work told me that thewomen labour from 6 a. m. to 3 p. m. and receivethirteen cents per day. They live on bananas, maize,sugar-cane and white-ant pie, the latter a delicacymade by mixing up white ants in banana-flour andforming a kind of nougat. The young ladies kindlyconsented to sit in front of the camera and I sawwhile making the picture that one was looking ather dainty, dusky face in a handglass with as muchinterest as that shown by women of more favourednations. These dark, equatorial beauties have ahuge comb like a pitchfork to coiffure the hair with;and they have as many and as romantic ways of ar-ranging the hair as a white girl, notwithstandingthat they do not use the curling tongs, rods, rats,or marcel waves.
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Zanzibar 77 Although Zanzibar is an English colony, yet theGerman merchants do the most of the business.They bring their merchandise from Tanga on thecoast, and from Dar-es-Salaam. They have largeivory houses and German ships come twice a monthfrom Naples and Hamburg. There is also a directline of French steamers from Marseilles every twoweeks. The American merchants do a big trade inivory although they are transferring the ivoryhouses to Mombasa in English territory and Dar-es-Salaam in the German colony. The largest exporters of ivory in the world areArnold, Cheney & Co. of New York, in whose ware-rooms at Zanzibar or Mombasa can oftentimes beseen twenty-five thousand dollars worth of tusksin one small corner. They have entertained nearlyall the great explorers of Africa, and the tales thathave been told at their table of pirate dhows, nativewars and terrible jungle marches would make valu-able and romantic reading. The other great ivorytraders of Zanzibar and Mombasa are Childs

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