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patterns. The huts are remarkably clean, and on account of their 
large size one is not so much oppressed by the smoke from the fire 
as is so usually the case in African dwellings. The only drawback 
to comfort is the grass carpet, which harbours an army of fleas. 
All stores of tobacco, coffee, &c., are neatly packed in banana leaves 
and tied with string. Remarkable order obtains in the huts, a 
place for everything and everything in its place being the universal 
practice. 
Fire . — Fire is obtained, whenever required, by friction, one piece 
of wood being rotated by the hands in a small hole cut in a piece 
of hard wood. Wood is the only fuel used. Fire is carried from 
one place to another by means of a slow match made of Mbugu 
cloth. A glowing ember is carried from the fire to light pipes, by 
either two sticks or neatly made iron tongs. At night torches, 
composed of strips of wood from a resinous tree, are used wdien 
going for any distance ; this is partly to scare away wild animals. 
Food .' — The Waganda subsist chiefly upon a vegetable diet, and 
the banana, of which there are several varieties, is the staple food. 
The varieties have all different names • that named minvu is eaten 
raw ; nakalalulu, kibuzi, gonya, and mizunzu are the kinds used only 
for cooking. The bananas grow’ everywhere, and require little or no 
cultivation save pruning, which is performed by old women. The 
sweet potato is next in importance as an article of diet, and is the 
chief vegetable cultivated. The coffee tree is extensively grown — 
the berries are very small, and they are eaten whole ; nearly every 
one carries about with him a small wicker box containing dried 
coffee berries, and should he meet a friend he offers him a few berries 
as one might offer a pinch of snuff. Small quantities of the follow- 
ing plants are grown : — Sugar-cane, a kind of red spinage, casava, 
maize, sesamum, millet, tullabone, Helmia bulbifera , Golocasia 
antiquorum , several species of beans, a species of solanum, and 
two or three kinds of pumpkins. The principal edible fruits are — 
mpafu, a fruit like a damson with a very hard stone and a sweet 
nut-like kernel, and matungru, a species of amomum. 
Arab traders residing in Uganda, have introduced the cultivation 
of wheat, rice, guavas, papaws, pomegranates, tomatos, and onions, 
and their cultivation is gradually spreading among the natives. 
Radishes and Hibiscus esculentus have been introduced from Egypt. 
