XXXI 
SOME PECULIAR FOODS 
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them. Before the above process, the fruit of the 
acca is a slow poison : severe stomachic pains follow 
on eating them, and death ensues in about ten hours. 
In times of lean harvests, the itching buffalo bean, 
called by most tribes the upupu, by the Angoni, 
chepungu, and the Wyao, lequania, is prepared and 
used as an article of food. 
A species of wild potato, called by the Mwera, 
matuku, and by the Angoni, mepama, is found in the 
bush. It is perfectly white in colour, almost tasteless, 
and of the same texture as an ordinary potato. The 
method of cooking is exactly similar to that adopted 
in the case of cultivated potatoes. 
Msindaeka is the name given to a herb closely 
resembling spinach, of which there are several wild 
varieties, while many kinds of grass such as timbaw- 
eesi, mlinda and kalialikamoschie are prepared and 
eaten as vegetables. 
