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" Jenne' live very well : they eat rice boiled with fresh meat, which is to be procured every day in the market. With the fine millet they make couscous; this is eaten with fresh or dried fish, of which they have great abundance. Their dishes are highly... "
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: And Across the Great Desert, to ... - Page 463
by René Caillié, Jomard (M., Edme-François) - 1830 - 14 pages
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or a Physical ..., Volume 3

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...
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A Geographical Survey of Africa: Its Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions ...

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....
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The Flooding of the Sahara: An Account of the Proposed Plan for Opening ...

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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The Eclectic Review, Volume 3; Volume 51

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1830 - 598 pages
...learned men : they then return to their native places, and enter into trade. ' The inhabitants of Jenné live very well : they eat rice boiled with fresh meat,...every one to get it. The expense of maintenance for a sirgle individual is about twenty-five or thirty cowries per day. Meat is not dear in this place :...
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