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This farinaceous food is often varied by meats, 

 for the Kafirs are not at all particular as to 

 their food, and will even eat monkey. They 

 sometimes kill a pig or fowl, and constantly 

 snare the birds. Those near the coast have the 

 advantage of getting plenty of fish, all sorts 

 and qualities being eaten with relish. Some 

 reptiles, and the fat black and yellow cater- 

 pillar of Cirina for da, a large drab moth, 

 are also not despised as food, women and 

 children regularly going out to gather these last 

 when fully grown. Some of the women climb 

 the trees, and shake the branches till the cater- 

 pillars drop to the ground, when they are picked 

 up and crammed into every available tin or 

 pot, where, as each one ejects a quantity of 

 black fluid from the mouth when touched, they 

 look a most repulsive crawling mass. 



The cheluana above referred to, often called 

 chuala, is made from the fruit of the cashew- 

 tree, and from a fruit like a small yellow 

 plum, growing in great profusion on a large 

 handsome tree something like an ash, with light- 



