If I could have used his pombe, or beer, it would have put some fat on my bones, but it requires a strong digestion; many of the chiefs and their wives live on it almost entirely.

A little flesh is necessary to relieve the acidity it causes; and they keep all flesh very carefully, no matter how high it may become: drying it on a stage over a fire prevents entire putridity.
_7th October, 1866._--I heard hooping-cough[28] in the village.

We found our visitors so disagreeable that I was glad to march; they were Waiyau, and very impudent, demanding gun or game medicine to enable them to shoot well: they came into the hut uninvited, and would take no denial.

It is probable that the Arabs drive a trade in gun medicine: it is inserted in cuts made above the thumb, and on the forearm.

Their superciliousness shows that they feel themselves to be the dominant race.