New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14

| ing an instant perfectly STILL he slowly COM
1 menced jerking the muscles of his arms and
| legs. increasing the violence of his motions.
| with head and eyes rolling. his tongue protrud-
| ing and churnng froth. until with one hnal
| violent upward films of the arms he fell to the
| ground.
After rolling in the dirt for q moment he arose
and. yelling like demon. broke through The
| circle and disappeared he For six
hours the din was kept up. and pandemonium
reigned as the first star performer was sue
| ceeded by others, both and win
| nil 6. in turn. the applause of their dusky
| friends until in the small hours the white
visitors summoned their swahiH guides who.
lantern and stick in hand. piloted them back
to their quarters at the Africa Hotel.
Different entirely. but not lacking in interest.
| are the daytime street scenes. Groups of dusky
n,aidens clad in the loose. flowing drapery of the
CCmoro Islands. attracted attention by unilua
nose jewel which. inspected closely. is found 70
be American gold dollar Further investi-
CATION which proves that this is the favOrite
nose jewel of the women in Zanzibar. furnishes
solution of the oft asked question. What ever
became OF all the gold dollars?'
In the native quarter one sees slave women
laboriously pounding corn in brig wooden NOR
tars. with close at hand. the mistresses-Of
the sable hue-arr1nse each others kinky
locks in br-aids and tails marvellous to behold
consists of flat rolls of paper-each about
inch in Observation-Disclosures if one may use the
| term. into the rim of the ear five and six OF
these folded paper disks being frequently
at a time
All sorts of edibles are hawked about the
streets in shallow trays of basketwork which
are Invariably carried upOn the head of the
seller. protected from the dust by conicaI covers
OF woven grass. White visitors desiring 10
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will. if they wise. refrain from close Oh
servation of methods, for when the cover is
| moved to admit of taking out the cakes Backie
not infreQUently converts the cover into hat
pro tenn, his head evidently being considered
the most convenient place to rest it until, the
purchase being concluded it is replaced upon
the remaining dainties and the seller goes ner-
rilv his way.
The baker whose deft fingers cOncOct the fiat
cakes which are Zanzibar speciality works al
most upon the street In his shop. which has
frontage of about six feet is an earthen oven, at
the bottom of which is lot of burning wood
The convex outside of this oven is heated by the
fire within then the baker takes the dough.
which he Inanipulates deity until IT is a round
cake about eight inches across and about a six
teenth OF an inch thick. losses it upon the
heated surface. and starts another. Directly
the dough strikes the wall of the oven il blisters
and bubbles, and in instant more it IS done.
The baker has to work with almost lightning
like rapidity- Shop, oven and baker are
nearly in the street that by chance movement
his arms or shoulders tresDass on the thorough
fare. and the hUstlins thronS soon reminds him
that space Is scarce in Zanzibar. The oblivion 70
surroundings which one needs to cultivate il
the native quarter is intensified if one desires 70
QueDch his thirst IN the part of the city fire.
quented by the BanyanS. These caste marked
East Indians Will eat nothing which has had Il f.
as they believe in the transmigration Of souls
II Banyan finds out that you are cooking
chicken in your house he will run from you as
though you had the plague. but it is to one who
asks a drink from him that he exhibits the
characteristic custom least likely TO please a
Caucasian guest Before he hands to his visitor
the glass Of water desired he Will spit into Il
ito prevent his house being polluted" and when
the glass or tar is returned he breaks it and
throws the fragments into the fire.
When. IN response to the oft repeated call.
Allah Kereem! Ii. IL II. Allah Mahornet mas
soof' God Is great there Is only one God and
Mahomet Is his prophet), the Zanzibar Arabs
troop toward the mosques. one frequently notes
among them men whose long. flowing boards
have been. by frequent applications of henna,
dyed 10 the auburn hue which. as local tradI-
tons have It was marked characteristics OF
me prophet whose name they venerate All
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