CHAPTEE V 
FOOD. 
The principal article of food used by the 
Africans is rice, and it does not matter what 
else they have eaten, nor how much ; they 
never think they have a meal until they 
have swallowed at least a pint of 'rice, which 
when boiled, makes two pints/ They use, 
however, quite a variety of animal food, 
fruits, and other vegetables besides, which 
they eat with their rice or between meals. 
Fowls of every kind common to the coun- 
try ( they have chickens in abundance, but 
have nothing to kill wild fowls with), fish, 
which are found in great abundance in most 
of the rivers, rats, monkeys, frogs, alligators, 
ants, bugs, with whatever else the country 
affords, whether of the creeping, running, 
swimming or flying kind, are all freely eaten. 
The bug-a-bug, a species of the ant, ia 
regarded as a great delicacy by many. 
Animals found dead are also eaten if not 
in a putrid state. 
Their principal vegetables are rice, cocoa 
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