[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link bookThe Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 CHAPTER IV 40/54
I was told this by Mr.Dawes, a Lieutenant in the Indian navy, who accompanied Colonel Pelly in his visit to the Nejed, Riad, &c, and took observations for him. _Tangare_ is the name of a rather handsome bean, which possesses intoxicating qualities.
To extract these it is boiled, then peeled, and new water supplied: after a second and third boiling it is pounded, and the meal taken to the river and the water allowed to percolate through it several times.
Twice cooking still leaves the intoxicating quality; but if eaten then it does not cause death: it is curious that the natives do not use it expressly to produce intoxication.
When planted near a tree it grows all over it, and yields abundantly: the skin of the pod is velvety, like our broad beans. Another bean, with a pretty white mark on it, grows freely, and is easily cooked, and good: it is here called _Gwingwiza_. _15th September, 1866._--We were now a short distance south of the Lake, and might have gone west to Mosauka's (called by some Pasauka's) to cross the Shire there, but I thought that my visit to Mukate's, a Waiyau chief still further south, might do good.
He, Mponda, and Kabinga, are the only three chiefs who still carry on raids against the Manganja at the instigation of the coast Arabs, and they are now sending periodical marauding parties to the Maravi (here named Malola) to supply the Kilwa slave-traders.
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