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pound of tobacco ; they are half filled with glowing embers 

 and half with tobacco ; perhaps the carbonic oxide increases 

 the soothing effect of the tobacco. The most singular pipes 

 I have yet seen are those used by Unyoro magicians ; a huge 

 twin bowl, ornamented all over with short conical spikes, is 

 fastened to a short heavy stem. 



In addition to tobacco, coffee-chewing is also indulged in in 

 Unyoro and Uganda. The coffee-tree grows in the southern 

 portions of both countries ; it resembles the tree I have seen 

 in Southern Arabia, only that the leaves of the kind which 

 grows here are larger. The pods are gathered when still 

 green, dipped in hot water and dried in the sun, and then 

 sold and consumed without further preparation. Many per- 

 sons, however, partially roast the pods. The taste of the pod 

 is peculiarly aromatic, and causes a slight secretion of saliva ; 

 I could never discover any other effect ; on the contrary, the 

 natives maintain that a couple of coffee-berries will drive 

 away hunger, and likewise that the berries are a remedy for 

 over-indulgence in mwSnge. It is customary among the better 

 classes to offer one another a few coffee-berries. 



Articles, when offered for sale in the market, bear names 

 entirely different from those in everyday use. Whereas the 

 ordinary word for tobacco is " taba" it is called in the markets 

 here " irJcdbwe." Phaseolus lunatus, usually " unverdngo" is 

 called " bticma ; " and bananas, usually " bitoki" are called 

 " Jcahdnda." I cannot at present venture to decide whether 

 we have here to do with words borrowed from another lan- 

 guage (the original language of the country, or the Galla idiom) 

 or with mere provincialisms. The latter is improbable, for, 

 later on, people in the Kikiinguru Mountains, who live at a 

 considerable distance, and have no connection with Unyoro, 

 identified the words when I mentioned them. Besides those 

 given above are the following : — Viakonga (mwSnge), a drink 

 made from bananas ; juru (megita), butter ; rumomoro (ayata), 

 sweet potatoes ; rengua (munyu), salt ; kydnyoa (nydma), meat ; 

 kabuniba (busidni), flour ; udivua (mudri), coffee ; karaman- 

 ydzo (isomu), a spear ; kizvdko (mbugit), bark cloth. The 

 names enclosed in parentheses are those in daily use. 



Among the crops cultivated in Unyoro are yams (birai), 



