The currency employed consists of cloths, blue “Kaniki,” white sheeting “Merikani” from Massachusetts’ mills, striped or barred prints, or checks, blue or red, from Manchester, Muscat, or Cutch, and beads, principally “Sofi,” which are like black-and-white clay-pipe stems broken into pieces half an inch long. One piece is called a _Masaro_, and is the lowest piece of currency that will purchase anything. The Sofi beads are strung in strings of twenty Masaro, which is then called a _Kheté_, and is sufficient to purchase rations for two days for a slave, but suffices the freeman or Mgwana but one day. The red beads, called Sami-sami, the Mutunda, small blue, brown, and white, will also readily be bartered in the market for provisions, but a discount will be charged on them, as the established and universal currency with all classes of natives attending the market is the Sofi. The prices at the market in 1876 were as follows :— Sheeting cloths of 4 yards long. Ivory per lb. 1 1 goat 2 1 sheep 1½ 12 fowls 1½ 1 bullock 10 1 potful—equal to 3 gallons—of wine 2 1   ”       ”          ”    of palm oil 4 60 lbs. of grain—Mtama 1 90 lbs.     ”    Indian corn 1 ½-gal. potful of honey in the comb 1 1 slave boy between 10 and 13 years old 16 1   ”   girl   ”        ”      ” 50 to 80 1   ”    ”     ”    13 and 18  ” 80 to 200 1   ”   woman  ”    18  ”  30  ” 80 to 130 1   ”    ”     ”    30  ”  50  ” 10 to 40 1   ”   boy    ”    13  ”  18  ” 16 to 50 1   ”   man    ”    18  ”  50  ” 10 to 50 The country of Ujiji extends between the Liuché river, along the Tanganika, north to the Mshala river, which gives it a length of forty- five miles. The former river separates it from Ukaranga on the south, while the latter river acts as a boundary between it and Urundi. As Ujiji is said to border upon Uguru, a district of Uhha, it may be said to have a breadth of twenty miles. Thus the area of Ujiji is not above nine hundred square miles. The Mtemi, or king, is called Mgassa, who entertains a superstitious fear of the lake. His residence is in a valley amongst the mountains bordering upon Uguru, and he believes that in the hour he looks upon the lake he dies. This superstitious fear may have some connection with the Legend of the Lake, which I shall give later.