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Got my ivory off the other day, all right, and bought another lot Saturday. Ivory seems to be the principal thing here,- cottons don't amount to a damn. We've sold more bales in Aden this years than come into all Mombasa in two. They have a ^[[high]] duty here, which would raise hell with the place if the Germans wanted to make Dar-es-salaam a free port. We buy a few goatskins here, sell a few bales, once in a while buy a few chillies, but ivory is really the only thing that keeps the show going.

Our house here is just about the right size for one man. Our Aden house was almost too big, but as

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a house it is away ahead of this one. Way, way ahead. We have a beautiful door downstairs,- all mahogany, with a carved post running up and down the middle where the door divides. There are four rows of brass knobs running across, and on the sides and up above the door proper is the Indian carving. Stewart says the landlord has been offered a thousand rupees for it,- at home it would be worth that many dollars.

Stewart is up a little now. I think the Co. will decide to send him home, though, later on. He's in no shape to stay out here.