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FOOD. 
month after the decease a second funeral ceremony is cele- 
brated; such of the relations as are rich in herds kill several 
oxen, and all the inhabitants of the village are admitted to 
the feast, which often lasts several days. 
These festivals are enlivened alternately by the wild 
music and the simple dances of the natives, and also by the 
fumes of palm- wine. The Landamas and Nalous take great 
pleasure in these amusements, and they will even deprive 
themselves of the necessaries of life to support the expense 
of their sacrifices. 
The food of these uncivilized tribes consists chiefly of 
rice boiled in water, to which they sometimes add the fruit 
of the palm-tree, from which they are too idle to express the 
oil. They seldom eat fish, for they have not skill to catch it ; 
but they rear poultry, sheep, and goats. They have few 
cattle, and still fewer horses ; I saw only a single ass whilst 
I was at Kakondy. 
These tribes carry on very little trade, for they sell 
nothing but salt, which they buy of the Bagos. For the 
rest, they are extremely indolent, and consequently work 
very little. Most of them do nothing but clear the ground 
for the purpose of sowing rice, or planting cassava, and they 
do not even take the trouble to break it up, though it would 
be more productive, if they would bestow a little labour 
upon it. 
As they are not disciples of Mahomet, they drink a 
great quantity of spirits ; and the palm-trees which abound 
in their country supply them with abundance of a very sweet 
wine. The fruit which they call caura also affords an 
agreeable beverage, when bruised and fermented with water ; 
it is intoxicating, and 1 have been told that it very much 
resembles cyder. They sometimes eat the pulp of this fruit ; 
for the idle (and these form the majority of them) have no 
other resource for satisfying their appetite. They have 
another liquor, called jin-jin-di, made with the root of a 
