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Show Advice From a King. Kabarega, the negro king of Unyoro, in Central Africa, is a man who rules his subjects with a rod of iron. Like all tyrants, ty-rants, he regulates their smallest actions, and a host of spies inform him of any disobedience to his commands. Among other things, he has made a fixed tariff of prices for everything bought or sold in his country, and every deviation from it is severely punished. An instance of this is given by Vita Hassan Has-san in his book about Emln Pasha and the Equatorial Province. About a month after Hassan's arrival in Unyoro he bought a fowl and paid 80 cowries for it, while the market price was only 23. In that part of Africa it takes about 230 cowries to make $1. Soon afterward a dragoman of the king appeared and brought back 5 cowries, with the message: "A fowl costs only 23 cowries, while you have given 80. The seller has done wrong, and the king will punish him, but he sends to you the advice to be careful care-ful henceforth in your purchases never to give for anything more than it is 1 worth, first of all in your own interest, the marKi fet2rfe0t to disturb . |
