A MABKET. 289 the vakil to requisition it, paying about double the usual price. This dried kisreb is called " abree," and is very useful on long marcbes, as it keeps good for an indefinite time. It is prepared as follows : Dougb made from dok'n is flavoured with herbs and broken into small pieces, wbicb are placed for a few days in the sun ; when tborougbly dried, it is packed in goat-skin bags.

The Waganda did not take very kindly to camelriding, and we bad some amusing scenes with tbem.

They would sometimes mount with- their backs to the camel's head, and their cries and groans as the camels slowly rose from their kneeling posture made the Arabs jeer and laugh, which the Waganda much resented ; for, considering themselves persons of great importance, they did not understand how any one could presume to make fun of them. Kitakka was perhaps the most uncomfortable on a camel's back, and he had a great objection to his camel taking up any position to the rear of the caravan. He was not at all expert in guiding his camel, but, notwithstanding many warnings, as often as he lagged behind, he urged the camel forward, and in his endeavours to regain his proper position, the balance of the loads would often be disarranged by cannoning against the camel in front, and Kitakka would be thrown ofi". On one occasion he dislocated his ankle, and on another injured his hip.

The camels provided for us here were most wretched VOL. n. u