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direct him to the place where preparations have been made for liis camping. 

 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 tlie rapid installation of 

 the tired travellers and their porters. 



You have scarcely got into your temporary quarters before you hear 



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the noise of a great multitude. Any numlier of persons from twenty to 

 five hundred, according to the importance and size of your caravan, are 

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

 or smaller quantities of yellow ripe 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. Baskets of i)lump 



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



