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only food tlmt will keep all the year round. Left iu 
the luisk on the stalk, piled up in a heap in a corner of 
the house, nothing harms it, and it is quite as whole- 
some, if not so milky, when a year old, as the day it 
Avas picked. All other food perishes if kept beyond a 
few months. There is a time of the year tow’ards the 
end of the dry season, about the months May and June, 
wdien tliere is nothing to Le had hut rice. For several 
months the gardens have been parched, the corn is now 
full of Aceevils, and nothing is to be had but rice, 
unle.'^s there is money in hand to buy flour. At this 
Imngry time of the year (as the people call it), the rice 
doo.s good service, hence'it is much prized by the people, 
and those Avho are provident Avill never leave them- 
selves Avithout a good supply of this most excellent 
food. 
