Dugumbe's horde tried to deal in the market in a domineering way.

"I shall buy that," said one.

"These are mine," said another; "no one must touch them but me," but the market-women taught them that they could not monopolize, but deal fairly.

They are certainly clever traders, and keep each other in countenance, they stand by each other, and will not allow overreaching, and they give food astonishingly cheap: once in the market they have no fear.
_12th and 13th July 1871._--The Banian slaves declared before Dugumbe that they would go to the River Lomame, but no further: he spoke long to them, but they will not consent to go further.

When told that they would thereby lose all their pay, they replied, "Yes, but not our lives," and they walked off from him muttering, which is insulting to one of his rank.