BAQAMOYO TO MPWAPWA. 47 mkono ; four mikono make a shiika or updnde, and two shiika make a doti, which is about four yards, and is the standard by which the value of cattle, slaves, and ivory is reckoned. The bolt or piece of thirty yards is called a jiira. The average allowance of cloth for Wanyamwezi porters is one doti per diem for sixteen men; the Wang'uana require rather more, or one doti for twelve men. These figures also vary somewhat in different districts and at different times. Near the coast food is dearer, or rather cloth is of less value than in the interior, and in times of scarcity food is dearer than in times of plenty. Other kinds of cloth have to be taken as presents to chiefs or for hongo ; e.g. Barasati, Dubwani, Sahari, Kikoi, Joho, and Subaya, with prints, coloured pocket-handkerchiefs, etc.

Beads are used in some districts instead of cloth, the sorts most valued being merikani and samisami : the former are small opaque white beads and the latter small transparent red beads with an opaque centre ; but besides these, small blue, green, pink, black, and transparent white beads, large blue, amber, and opaque, white beads, and ringbeads of blue, green, amber, and transparent white are required. The beads are bought in large bundles or bunches: each string is called a timba; two matimba make a kete, and ten rnakete a fiindo. The ordinary allowance is one kete of the small