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Updated: May 18, 2025
Private individuals will not receive them without counting them out; those even who made but a few small purchases had to count out five hundred thousand shells. The doctor had now to borrow two thousand kurdie, which did not amount to the value of a dollar.
Here a caravan appears from Gonga bringing the desired kola-nut, chewed by all who have ten kurdie to spare; or another caravan laden with natron; or a troop of A'sbenawa going off with their salt to the neighbouring towns; or some Arabs leading their camels, heavily laden with the luxuries of the north and east.
The currency of the country consists of cowrie shells, or kurdie, which are not, as in regions near the coast, fastened together in strings of one hundred each, but are separate, and must be counted one by one. The governors of towns make them up in sacks containing twenty thousand each.
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