CATTLE AND FOOD. 
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made from the sorghum, and from this grain they also 
produce a coarse, intoxicating, thick liquor, tasting like 
wort. In Ugogo they manufacture small pillars of salt 
by evaporation, but it is dirty in colour, with a dis- 
agreeable bitter taste. Fowls, eggs, and goats were 
occasionally brought into camp to be bartered for 
cloth, tobacco, or beads, as there was not a coin — 
copper, silver, or gold — that they would take in ex- 
change for their produce. 
We met with no cattle, except those collected for 
export at the coast, until we had proceeded twenty 
marches into the interior, at which point, and farther 
on, we saw a small humped breed, the prevailing 
colours being white and red — the bulls with large 
humps and small horns. The goats were of the 
ordinary short-haired sort, never used as milkers ; and 
sheep, though rarely seen, were of the " doomba " or 
fatty-tailed variety, the size of a year-old Leicester, 
costing nine yards cotton stuff. Small bandy-legged 
brindled dogs followed the Wagogo. 
Food was not abundant. As it was the dry season, 
we had to trust to chance and our rifles. One night 
our entire dinner consisted of two ears of Indian corn, 
eaten with salt; nothing besides, neither bread nor 
rice. Bombay very kindly, in the middle of this re- 
past (which was laid out on our " service " of reversed 
tin lids placed on the tops of wooden boxes as tables), 
went and brought a cold grilled chicken, very small, 
and awkwardly flattened out. Though our hunger 
prompted us to accept the offer, we declined with 
many thanks. But, while sitting rather silently over 
our empty tin covers, he again appeared, having 
foraged five live chickens — thus securing for us not 
