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into a vessel. The residue is excellent fattening food for 
fowls, and the oil itself is almost indistinguishable from 
the best olive in taste. Indeed most of the olive-oil we 
use in England is nothing but the oil of ground-nuts, 
which are exported largely from West African ports to 
Marseilles, to be there manufactured and flavoured into 
various salad oils christened by different names. This oil 
of ground-nuts is excellent as a kitchen grease and asa 
lamp-oil. I will even give you another recipe in which 
this substance may be advantageously employed. Take 
a quantity of sugar-canes, some nine or ten sticks, peel 
them, cut them up into small cubes, and mash these to 
a pulp, straining off the abundant liquor into a large pot; 
put this over the fire to boil, and at the end of an hour 
and a half you will rejoice to find the sweet syrupy liquor 
reduced to a considerable quantity of gluey barley-sugar. 
If you find yourself as I did for several months without 
any other form of saccharine matter, this will make a 
useful addition to your daily fare, and when mixed and 
cooked with the right proportion of ground-nut oil will 
give you a most toothsome toffee. Little expedients and 
shifts like these serve consider ably to lighten the explorer’s 
lot, and to render palatable many forms of native food. 
An African market with so many commodities to sell 
and so many eager sellers and loungers, is a most ani- 
mated scene. The din of voices may be heard afar off, 
and when you enter the great open square, where, under 
the shade of great trees, perhaps a thousand people are 
disposed in little chaffering groups round their heaps of 
wares, it is worse than the parrot-house at the Zoological 
Gardens. The women are the keenest traders, they 
haggle and scream and expostulate, and chuckle aside 
over their bargains, whilst the hulking men lounge about 
in good-humoured listlessness, or squat in rows stolidly 
smoking. Although the strife of tongues is great, few 
real quarrels occur. ‘There is in most cases a chief of the 
market, perhaps an old Fetish man, who regulates all 
disputes, and who so heavily fines both litigants that all 
are chary of provoking his arbitration, This babel lasts 
