TIIE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
beard. The sheep are of large size, hairy, with fine 
dewlaps and drooping ears. The male has an enor¬ 
mously fat tail, developed to such an extent as to 
really impede his movements. A fine sheep may be 
bought for from four to eight yards of cloth, a fat 
goat for about the same cost, and a milch goat a 
trifle dearer. 
Milk enters largely into the diet of the Wa-caga, 
and they are also passionately fond of warm blood 
fresh from the throat of a newly-slaughtered animal. 
Whenever I killed an ox for my men—who being Mo¬ 
hammedans insisting on cutting its throat and letting 
it bleed to death—the Wa- caga would assemble with 
their little wooden bowls, and as the animal lay in its 
death throes on the ground, the hot purple blood 
spurting at high pressure from the severed veins, the 
eager natives filled one after the other their wmoden 
vessels and then stepped apart from the crowd to drink 
the coagulating gore with utter satisfaction and a 
gourmet’s joy. They are great flesh-eaters when they 
can afford it, but, as I have already said, their main 
diet is vegetable. Among the plants grown for food 
are maize, sweet potatoes, yams, arums (Colocasia 
antiquorum ), beans, peas, red millet, and the banana. 
Tobacco is also largely cultivated, and the natives chew 
it and consume it as snuff mixed with natron-salt. 
Honey is produced in immense quantities by the semi¬ 
wild bees which make their hives in the wooden cases 
put up by the natives among the forest trees. A 
large barrelful may be bought for two yards of cloth. 
The Wa-caga inhabit the western, southern, and 
eastern slopes of Kilima-njaro. The northern side of 
the mountain is without any other inhabitants than 
roving bands of Masai. The principal Caga states, 
