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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
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mentation furnishes a sweet and intoxicating beer. 
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When, in consequence of drought, the banana crop 
fails, the Baganda are reduced to a state of famine. 
Dried banana leaves are emblems of mourning. When 
King Mutesa died the whole country went into mourn¬ 
ing, and everyone allowed the hair to grow. (x4she,) 
Boy Collecting Termites. 
Ill Uganda, as in other parts of Africa, termites (in their winged 
stage) are regarded as delicacies. 
Men were clothed in the national costume of bark 
cloth, knotted over the right shoulder, but girded as a 
sign of mourning with withered banana leaves, emblems 
of decay and death. 
The sweet potato is cultivated everywhere in East 
Africa from Zanzibar to Egypt (Grant). The tubers are 
favourite food with the natives. Guinea fowls and 
