Mr. sami Joo is endeavouring to sell boots from the bow, while Guffar Ali is pressing embroidery on our acceptance from the stern.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
Though they demurred at the amount of the present at first, the difference between us was finally ended by my adding a fundo of red beads- sami-sami-for the chief's wife.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
The five other boxes contained potted meat and soups; but the twelfth, containing one dozen bottles of medicinal brandy, was gone;and a strict cross-examination of Asmani, the head man of Livingstone's caravan, elicited the fact, that not only was one case of brandy missing, but also two bales of cloth and four bags of the most valuable beads in Africa-sami-sami-which are as gold with the natives.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley