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direct him to the pLace where pre])arations have been made for his cami)ing. 

 The ground has been cleared, or it may be that an unusually spacious 

 rest-house has been swept out, its floor laid with fresh green grass, and 

 every reasonable preparation has been made for the rapid installation of 

 the tired travellers and their porters. 



You have scarcely got into your temporary quarters liefore you hear 



92. TEA ON THE ROAD, UOANDA 



the noise of a great multitude. Any number of jiersons from twenty to 

 five hundred, according to the imi)ortance and size of your caravan, are 

 converging on your camp, loaded with bunches of green unripe bananas,* 

 or smaller quantities of yellow ri})e ones, carrying grass bundles in which 

 are tied up sweet potatoes, these being now much cultivated by the chiefs. 

 Other bundles contain beans, Indian corn, ground-nuts, l^askets of plump 



* The native usually prefers tlie unripe banana cooked, as his mainstay. 



