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white mau had come there would always be remembered as a 

 great year. Food for the men was plentiful, but I could obtain 

 no eggs, fowls, milk, or ripe bananas, the latter being cooked and 

 eaten when green. 



One of the Wanyamwezi began talking of the Portuguese, 

 saying they were a people like the Wazungu, and lived on the 

 coast, and had two kings. The chief one was a woman called 

 "Maria" — evidently the Blessed Virgin — and they had houses 

 with her figure in them. The other king was Moeneputo, the 

 African name for the King of Portugal. 



The granaries of these parts deserve notice. They are built 

 on posts, raising the floors about three feet from the ground, 

 and are from four to twelve feet in diameter, while some of the 

 larger may be twenty feet high, exclusive of the conical roof. 

 Those for old corn are plastered, and have under the eaves a 

 small hole for access, reached by a notched trunk used as a lad- 

 der. Those for fresh corn are made of canes about eleven feet 

 long and two inches apart, with hoops of the same material at 



April, 

 1874. 



KINO MIKIKO AND UIS GKASAET. 



