By Swahili time the day commences at 7 a.m.

Here are some low-browed and primitive porters from the mountains, "Shenzies," as the superior Swahili call them, and clad only in the native kilt of grass or reeds.

Do you blame gentle Sister Mabel that she would never speak to any Hun in German, using only Swahili and precious little of that?

But there was one thing she never did again: she never spoke German any more, but gave all her orders and held all dealings with the enemy in Swahili, the native language, or in English.

For she alone could run the German woman cook, could speak Swahili, and keep order among the native boys, buy eggs and fruit and chickens from the natives, so that our sick might not want for the essentially fresh foods.

"I observed," replied the fair young man in the mongrel Arabic-Swahili lingua franca of the Red Sea and East African littorals "that it is but natural for dogs to prey upon dogs.

He could see the line of porters, bales on heads, the Arabs on horseback, the white man in a litter swinging from a long bamboo pole beneath which half a dozen Swahili loped along.

Thus it was he had earned the name by which he was known from Zanzibar to Berbera, "He-who-slays-lions-with-the-knife," had earned the envy and hatred of the fat white man and the Arabs, the boundless admiration of the Swahili askaris, hunters and porters, and the deep dog-like affection of Moussa Isa....

One we named "Shenzi," the name given the wild bush natives by the Swahili, the semi-civilized African porters.

DICTIONNAIRE SWAHILI-FRANCAIS.

SEE Dictionnaire Swahili-Francais.

SACLEUX, CHARLES, ESTATE OF. SEE Dictionnaire Swahili-Francais.

DICTIONNAIRE SWAHILI-FRANCAIS.

SEE Dictionnaire Swahili-Francais.

SACLEUX, CHARLES, ESTATE OF. SEE Dictionnaire Swahili-Francais.

[The new fire in Wadai, among the Swahili, and in other parts of Africa.]

Among the Swahili of East Africa the greatest festival is that of the New Year, which falls in the second half of August.

We may conjecture that wherever such a ceremony has been observed, it originally marked the beginning of a new year, as it did in ancient Rome and Ireland, and as it still does in the Sudanese kingdom of Wadai and among the Swahili of Eastern Africa.

SWAHILI (i. e. coast people), a people of mixed Bantu and Arab stock occupying Zanzibar and the adjoining territory from nearly Mombasa to Mozambique; they are an enterprising race, and are dispersed as traders, hunters, carriers, &c., far and wide over Central Africa.