ZANZIBAR. 15 be " clean " to slaughter animals for food ; it being unlawful for a Mohammedan to eat meat killed by an " infidel." Most of them, however, have little acquaintance with the tenets of the religion which they profess, and rarely if ever repeat the prescribed prayers ; I had many of them in my service for more than two years, and never knew any of them to pray except on one occasion, when we were overtaken by a terrific storm on the Victoria Lake and our boat was in imminent danger of being swamped. Although most of them have been brought from the interior as slaves, they look down with infinite contempt upon their brethren of the mainland, calling them Washenzi or savages. The Wang'uana are as improvident a class as it is possible to find anywhere, and never give a 'thought to the future ; consequently it is no punishment to them to stop their pay for misconduct or breaches of discipline. When a Mng'uana returns from the interior with his pocket full of money he buys a brand-new suit of clothes and a cane and is quite the elegant gentleman for a short time, eating and drinking of the best, and indulging in nightly carouses with his boon companions. But when his money is all gone, as it usually is in a few weeks, he sells his clothes, and when the proceeds have all disappeared he is reduced to rags and is glad to engage again for another two or three years' journey into the interior. On the march they are always trying to shirk their work,