whose master was teaching in school, greatly surprised him when he sat down to lunch. He found that the cook, as he had not quite sufficient greengages to fill up the pie dish, had supplied the deficiency with onions, and on being questioned, merely remarked, ‘Well, sir, don't we use onions for almost everything nowadays?’ It is only lately that onions have been procurable in any quantity.
One needs to be extremely careful in watching the culinary operations. Happily it is possible, nowadays, to get a fair variety of food, for most Europeans cannot wisely attempt to live in native fashion, as the health suffers, and the constitution is quickly undermined. Fresh meat, chiefly goats’ flesh, is obtainable in markets in most of the large centres daily. Beef sometimes; but it is not always advisable to buy beef. The natives rarely sell their cattle for killing, unless they fear they are going to die of
