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meagreness of their diet, made it a really difficult matter 

 to restore one of them to health after being taken ill. 



On this day we served out the last of our supply of 

 beans and corn. By the use of our rifles, we had been 

 enabled to make the thirty days' supply of food which 

 we had taken with us when leaving Hameye last exactly 

 fifty days. Had we gone unprepared, to take advantage 

 of the presence of game, we should long before have 

 been forced to turn back. For the preceding ten days 

 both Lieutenant von Hohnel and I had suffered all the 

 tortures of indigestion resulting from our coarse diet. 

 With eagerness we questioned Motio as to the products 

 of the country of Wamsara. He said the natives grew 

 two kinds of millet, Indian corn, tobacco, squash, pump- 

 kins, and three varieties of beans. The thought of this 

 variety watered our mouths ; and we went to sleep 

 soothed with the thought that on the morrow market 

 would open, and we should revel in the luxury of fresh 

 vegetables. 



