6 UGANDA AND TEE EGYPTIAN SO CDAN.

are chiefly attended to by women who, with henna-

dyed nails and bejewelled noses squat on the

ground behind their wares nursing their babies.

Crowds of negroes, clad in all the colours of the rain-

bow, are coining and going ; strings of pannier-laden

donkeys carrying sand or stone for building purposes

NG'AMBO, ZANZIBAR, FROM DR. LIVINGSTONE'S OLD HOUSE.

crawl in a dejected manner along the streets ; stal- wart hammalis or coolies, staggering under sacks of

cloves or bales of merchandise, pass at a rapid trot,

shouting to the crowd to make way ; then a well-

dressed slave, his long shirt tucked up into his girdle that he may run better, threads his way quickly