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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
would be rather tame without wine for cheer, twenty 
gallons of ponibe - — beer in a state of natural fermen- 
tation — were distributed. To satisfy all which demands 
and expectations, three full bales of cloth and 120 lbs. 
of beads were disbursed. 
On the evening of the second day, I was rewarded 
for my liberality when I saw the general contentment, 
and heard on all sides expressions of esteem and 
renewed loyalty. 
Nor were Frank and Fred forgotten, for I gave 
permission for them to issue for themselves, each day 
while in camp, four yards of cloth, or two fundo of 
beads, to be expended as they thought fit, over and 
above ration money. Small as this may seem, it was 
really equal to a gift of 4s. per day pocket-money. 
Though they lived on similar food to that cooked for 
myself, I observed that they chose to indulge in many 
things which I could not digest, or for which I had 
no appetite, such as ground-nuts, ripe bananas, plantains, 
and parched green corn. Fred Barker was remarkably 
partial to these things. This extra pocket-money also 
served to purchase a larger quantity of milk, eggs, 
chickens, and rice from the Wasukuma and Sungora. 
My daily fare at this time consisted principally of 
chickens, sweet potatoes, milk, tea and coffee. Pocock 
and Barker varied this diet with rice, with which 
Sungoro furnished them, and bread made of Indian 
corn and millet. 
The village of Ivagehyi, in the Uchambi district and 
country of Usukuma, became after our arrival a place 
of great local importance. It attracted an unusual 
number of native traders from all sides within a radius 
of twenty or thirty miles. Fishermen from Ukerewe, 
whose purple hills we saw across the arm of the lake, 
came in their canoes, with stores of dried fish ; those 
of Igusa, Sima, and Magu, east of us in Usukuma, 
brought their cassava, or manioc, and ripe bananas ; 
the herdsmen of Usmau, thirty miles south of Ivagehyi, 
sent their oxen ; and the tribes of Muanza — famous 
historically as being the point whence Speke first saw 
