Chap. XXXIV. GROUND-NUT DIET.--BADANI / JO. 435 
all the patches of grass being diversified and em- 
bellished with a kind of violet-coloured lily. 
We now gradually approached the foot of Mount 
Holma, behind which another mountain began to rise 
into view; while on our left we passed a small 
" riimde," or slave-village, and then entered a sort of 
defile. We were greatly afraid lest we should be 
punished for the gastronomic transgression of our 
travelling rule, as a storm threatened us from behind ; 
but we had time to reach Badamjo in safety. Punished, 
however, we were, like the man who despised his 
peas ; for, instead of finding here full bowls of pud- 
ding, we could not even procure the poor ground- 
nuts ; and happy was he who had not neglected to 
fill his pockets from the full basket in Segero. 
We had the utmost difficulty in buying a very small 
quantity of grain for the horses ; so that they also 
came in for a share in the remains of the ground-nuts 
of Segero ; and my host especially was such a shabby, 
inhospitable fellow, that it was painful to speak a word 
to him. However, it seemed that he had reason to 
complain, having been treated very harshly by op- 
pressive officers, and having lost all his cattle by dis- 
ease. Not a drop of milk was to be got in the village, 
all the cattle having died. The cattle, at least those 
of the large breed, which apparently has been intro- 
duced into the country by the Fulbe, seem not yet 
quite acclimatized, and are occasionally decimated by 
disease. 
Badamjo is very picturesquely situated in a beau- 
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