192 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

strings, or one thousand cowries, being equal to one doti. Beads of various kinds and brass wire are also employed as money, but not nearly to the same extent as cloth and cowries. The cheapest way of buying food, especially for a small party, is to purchase a bullock, and having killed it exchange small portions of the meat for bananas, sweet potatoes, fowls, eggs, and other provisions which will keep. For meat being a rarity among the bakopi (peasants) they are glad to get it, and a much larger quantity of food can be obtained in this manner than by buying it directly for cloth or cowries.