The Backbone of Africa a Record of Travel During the Great War With Some Sugg
The Backbone of Africa a Record of Travel During the Great War With Some Sugg
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They were great gamblers. They gambled with the proceeds THE CONGO GOLDFIELDS 157 of their sale of elephant meat, which they sold in the villages we stopped at. So long as they had a five or a ten-centime piece left, they went on gambling. The game seemed to consist of one man throwing down a number of pebbles on a mat, some of which were picked up quickly by his opponent, who threw down more: but how the chance was decided, or what it depended on, passed my compre- hension. All natives in the ...goldfield districts have money, earned at the mines. They paid as much as tenpence a yard, local value, for unbleached calico: this was worth threepence in England and, perhaps, fivepence in the Congo. They were very fond of English tobacco, and constantly asked me to sell some to them.
Obtaining seventy fresh carriers at Arebi, I went east to Labani, mostly through forest. After Labani the route was bad and extremely hilly ; in consequence, the carriers became exhausted, especially those couples carrying the heavy tusks, weighing ninety and eighty pounds.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They were great gamblers. They gambled with the proceeds THE CONGO GOLDFIELDS 157 of their sale of elephant meat, which they sold in the villages we stopped at. So long as they had a five or a ten-centime piece left, they went on gambling. The game seemed to consist of one man throwing down a number of pebbles on a mat, some of which were picked up quickly by his opponent, who threw down more: but how the chance was decided, or what it depended on, passed my compre- hension. All natives in the ...goldfield districts have money, earned at the mines. They paid as much as tenpence a yard, local value, for unbleached calico: this was worth threepence in England and, perhaps, fivepence in the Congo. They were very fond of English tobacco, and constantly asked me to sell some to them.
Obtaining seventy fresh carriers at Arebi, I went east to Labani, mostly through forest. After Labani the route was bad and extremely hilly ; in consequence, the carriers became exhausted, especially those couples carrying the heavy tusks, weighing ninety and eighty pounds.
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