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mongooses and genets are very destrnctive to i)Oiiltry. Milk and bntter 

 are plentiful, but have an unpleasant taste, caused by the universal cus- 

 tom of washing out the vessels with another fluid derived from the 

 same animal. The list of vegetable i)roductions is very large for a 

 savage community. Bananas and plantains, beans of six diflerent va- 

 rieties, sweet potatoes, yams, cassava, Indian corn, pumi^kins, squashes, 

 millet, sugar-cane, and papaws, aie among them, while tomatoes and 

 a sort of spinach grow wild in abundance. vSalt, of poor quality how- 

 ever, is obtained from the plains of Kahe, south of the mountain. 



Viff. 9. 



(lATK AND HEDGK I.N JSI.\(HAMK. 



Mt. KilimaNjaro, East Africa. 



(Friini phntngraph in r. .S N, M ) 



Great quantities of pombe,or native beer, are made from wimbi, a kind 

 of sorghum. It tastes exactly like ordinary beer yeast, for which it is 

 a fair substitute. The natives consume it in great quantities, especially 

 the chiefs, who are half drunk most of the time. Europeans soon grow 

 fond of it, though there is scarcely enough alcohol in it to affect a white 

 man. 



The religion, if it can be so called, is fetichism, universal throughout 



