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various Goanese accomplishments — making curds and 

 whey, butter, cheese, and ghee; potting fish, pick- 

 ling onions and limes, and preparing jams and jelly 

 from the pleasant and cooling rosel, — he learned the 

 art of yeasting bread with whey or sour bean-flour 

 (his leathery scones of coarse meal were an abomination 

 to us) ; of straining honey, of preparing the favourite 

 u Kawurmeh," jerked or smoked meat chipped up and 

 soused in ghee; of making Firni, rice-jelly, and Halwa, 

 confectionery, in the shape of " Kazi's luggage," and 

 " hand-works : ? ' he was taught to make ink from 

 burnt grain ; and last, not least, the trick of boiling 

 rice as it should be boiled. We, in turn, taught him 

 the various sciences of bird-stuffing, of boiling down 

 isinglass and ghee, of doctoring tobacco with plantain, 

 heeart, and tea leaves, and of making milk-punch, cigars, 

 and guraku for the hookah. Snay bin Amir also sent into 

 the country for plantains and tamarinds, then unprocu- 

 rable at Kazeh, and he brewed a quantity of beer and 

 mawa or plantain-wine. He admonished the Baloch 

 and the sons of Eamji to be more careful, as re- 

 gards conduct and expenditure. He lent me valuable 

 assistance in sketching the outlines of the Kinyamwezi, 

 or language of ^Unyamwezi, and by his distances and 

 directions we were enabled to lay down the Southern 

 limits, and the general shape of the Nyanza or Northern 

 Lake, as correctly — and the maps forwarded from Kazeh 

 to the Royal Geographical Society will establish this fact 

 — as they were subsequently determined, after actual 

 exploration, by my companion. He took charge of our 

 letters and papers intended for home, and he undertook 

 to forward the lagging gang still expected from the 

 Coast : as the future will prove, his energy enabled me to 

 receive the much wanted reserve in the " nick of time." 

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