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a place two days distant, and selling the meat for grain and 

 cassava: no sooner is it known that an animal is killed, 

 than the village women crowd in here, carrying their pro- 

 duce to exchange it for meat, which they prefer to beads 

 or anything else. Their farinaceous food creates a great 

 craving for flesh : were my shoes not done I would go in 

 for buffaloes too. 



A man from the upper part of Tanganyika gives the same 

 account of the river from Eusisi that Burton and Speke 

 received when they went to its mouth. He says that the 

 water of the Lake goes up some distance, but is met by 

 Eusisi water, and driven back thereby. The Lake water, 

 he adds, finds an exit northwards and eastwards by several 

 small rivers which would admit small canoes only. They 

 pour into Lake Chowambe — probably that discovered by 

 Mr. Baker. This Chowambe is in Hundi, the country of, 

 cannibals, but the most enlightened informants leave the 

 impression on the mind of groping in the dark : it may 

 be all different when we come to see it. 



The fruit of the palm, which yields palm-oil, is first of 

 all boiled, then pounded in a mortar, then put into hot 

 or boiling water, and the oil skimmed off. The palm-oil 

 is said to be very abundant at Ujiji, as much as 300 gal- 

 lons being often brought into the bazaar for sale in one 

 morning ; the people buy it eagerly for cooking purposes. 

 Mohamad says that the Island of Pemba, near Zanzibar, 

 contains many of these palms, but the people are ignorant 

 of the mode of separating the oil from the nut : they call 

 the palm Nkoma at Casembe's, and Chikichi at Zanzibar.* 



No better authority for what has been done or left 

 undone by Mohamadans in this country can be found than 

 Mohamad bin Saleh, for he is very intelligent, and takes 



* Chikichi nuts have been an article of trade and export for some time 

 from Zanzibar. The oil-palm grows wild in Peoiba. 



