| James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 580 pages
...have great abundance. Their dishes are highly seasoned ; they use a good deal of allspice, and salt it common enough to enable every one to get it The expense of maintenance for a single individual is about twenty. •re or thirty cowrie« per day. Meat u not dear in this place ; a piece which costa forty... | |
| James MacQueen - Africa - 1840 - 420 pages
...millet they make cous-cous ; this is eaten with fresh or dried fish, of which they have great abundance. The expense of maintenance for a single individual...dear in this place: a piece which costs forty cowries is enough to furnish a dinner for four persons. One thousand cowries are equal in value to one dollar.... | |
| Donald Mackenzie - Africa, North - 1877 - 358 pages
...the fine millet they make cooscoosoo ; this is eaten with fresh or dried fish, of which they have a great abundance. Their dishes are highly seasoned...enough to enable every one to get it. The expense of food for a single individual per day is about twopence. A piece of meat which costs twopence-halfpenny... | |
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