THE BEER, CROPS, AND CATTLE OF GANI. 321 
them they must be kind to his guests : and that 
whatever we wanted — meat, drink, house-room, &c. — 
must be provided. 
The beer made by the natives was strong and 
pleasantly bitter, so that Bombay and others showed 
the effects of it, becoming rather noisy towards night. 
The beverage is manufactured from Murwa, roasted, 
pounded, soaked, sun-dried, and boiled. When cooling 
it ferments slightly, and it is more agreeable to the 
taste in this lukewarm state than afterwards when 
entirely cold. It appeared to us a wholesome, though 
coarse, heavy drink. The other grains here were ses- 
samum, Hibiscus, and Hyptis spicigera. The last is 
called " neeno ; " we had never seen it before, but the 
natives cultivate it, eating its seeds roasted, or making 
oil of them. Although the fields were well weeded 
the crops were poor, and often appeared full of the 
Crotolania glauca, or "mcsewse," of whose inflated 
pod, leaves, and flowers, the natives make a dish re- 
sembling spinage. We had entirely lost the plantain- 
tree of Uganda, and rarely came upon Indian corn 
or ground-nut, which up to Unyoro had been always 
procurable. 
Like the crops, the cattle are poor, and of a small 
breed, rather dirtily kept. It was amusing to see the 
odd way in which our two Gani men, who accompa- 
nied us from Unyoro, and who had received a present 
of some small cows from the king, drove the stubborn 
animals along. Simple driving they did not under- 
stand ; one of the horns and the tail were caught 
hold of by a man who walked alongside, and in this 
way the cow was urged along the road. Of a morn- 
ing, when all the cows are brought to the space in 
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