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some half-dozen earthenware pots and a few wicker and 
grass basins. Some bark cloth, a few spears, a shield, a 
drum, a hill-hook or two, a couple of hoes, some knob- 
sticks and pipe stems, and a trough for the manufacture 
of banana wine, complete the inventory of the house- 
hold effects. 
Behind the peasant’s own 
dwelling are two huts of hum- 
bler pretensions, also sur- 
rounded by courts, where we 
may behold the females of the 
family at work. Some are 
busy kneading the bananas to 
extract their juice, which, when 
fermented, is called maramba — 
delicious in flavour when well 
made ; others are sorting herbs 
for broth-food, medicines, or 
some cunning charm ; others, 
again, are laying out tobacco- 
leaves to dry, whilst the most 
elderly are engaged in smoking 
from long-stemmed pipes, re- 
tailing between the leisure- 
drawn draughts of smoke the 
experience of their lives. 
Such is the kopi at home. 
If the picture is not a faith- 
ful one of all his class, it may 
be attributed to his own in- 
dolence, or to some calamity 
lately befallen him. From it 
will be seen that the average 
native of Uganda has an abundance and a variety 
of good food, that he is comfortably lodged, as far 
as his wants require, is well and often married, and 
is secure from enemies so far as a powerful sovereign 
and warlike multitudes can command security. Still, 
there is one thing more that is necessary for his 
happiness — protection from his sovereign. 
1 & 2. Spears of Uganda. 
3. Shield „ 
4. Machete' ,, 
