I asked if they had any objections to my looking at the slaves, the owners pointed out the different slaves, and said that after feeding them, and accounting for the losses in the way to the coast, they made little by the trip.

I suspect that the gain is made by those who ship them to the ports of Arabia, for at Zanzibar most of the younger slaves we saw went at about seven dollars a head.

I said to them it was a bad business altogether.

They presented fowls to me in the evening.
_20th September, 1866._--The chief begged so hard that I would stay another day and give medicine to a sick child, that I consented.

He promised plenty of food, and, as an earnest of his sincerity, sent an immense pot of beer in the evening.