6 4 EASTERN ETHIOPIA v 



mentation furnishes a sweet and intoxicating beer. 

 When, in consequence of drought, the banana crop 

 fails, the Baganda are reduced to a state of famine. 



Dried banana leaves are emblems of mourning. When 

 Kino- Mutesa died the whole country went into mourn- 

 ing, and everyone allowed the hair to grow. (Ashe.) 



Boy Collecting Termites. 



In Uganda, aa in other parts of Africa, termites (in their winged 

 stage) are regarded as delicacies. 



Men were clothed in the national costume of bark 

 cloth, knotted over the right shoulder, but girded as a 

 sign of mourning with withered banana leaves, emblems 

 of decay and death. 



The sweet potato is cultivated everywhere in East 

 Africa from Zanzibar to Egypt (Grant). The tubers are 

 favourite food with the natives. Guinea fowls and 



