HELL-i^ißE Sauce. 
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sauce, pahvai'i, and a vegetable resembliug our green cabbage: this was 
made from the terminal shoots of the Manihot the lirst lastci of which 
put us otf any inclination tor a second helping, because owing to the 
plentiful addition of capsicum we imagined we had swallowed nothing 
less than hell-üre. A look from the chieftain seemed (d have api)ointed 
his A\ ife and daughter as subservient genii for us Europeans, because 
tin y never left our side but ]daced l)efore us everytliiug eatable that the 
house possessed. Included amongst the latter were several small nuim- 
mals smoked in their skins and hair, but which on account of their resem- 
blance to rats Ave were afraid to try the taste of: they were called Atuh. 
It was an interesting picture, to Avatch more than 100 starved people 
divided up into a nundjer of small groups squatting before the pots, filled 
but for a moment, and satisfying the wants of their stomach in 
Indian fashion — a satisfaction that had been denied them for a long 
time past. 
