Roosevelt's African trip : the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels (1909)
SAMUEL BAKER AND THE SLAVE TRADE 374 glass beads. The piratical expedition being complete, he pays his men five months' wages in advance, at the rate of forty-five piastres (nine shillings) per month, and he agrees to give them eighty piastres per month for any period exceeding the five months… … BAKER’S ARRIVAL AT RIONGA’S ISLAND clothes at an exorbitant price. Every man has a strip of paper, upon which is written, by the clerk of the expedition, the amount he haS received both in goods and money, and this paper he must produce at the final settlement. “The vessels sail about December, and…
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 · Game and game-birds -- Africa, Central · Big game hunting -- Africa, Central · Africa -- Discovery and exploration
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