They keep firewood in their homes, and despite the abundance of firewood they have, they do not benefit from it, nor do they know it. They cultivate cowpeas and watermelons along with millet. As for the cowpeas, they are like the cowpeas in the land of Egypt, as they are more prized by them, resembling the beans of Egypt. As for the watermelons, most of them are small in size, like the watermelons that appear at the end of the watermelon season in the winter. When broken, they are not ripe, but the ones in people's homes are ripe despite their small size. They have three uses for watermelons: First, they eat them when ripe, just as we eat our watermelons, and they drink their juice. Second, they take the watermelons and cut their rinds with a knife, then cut them into four pieces and leave them until they dry, thus preserving many things of this kind. In times of need, they pound them in a wooden mortar until they become flour, from which they make a gruel and drink it. They also have a dish called "madida," which is known in the language of the Europeans as "kurra." Sometimes they eat it without pounding or cooking. Third, they collect a lot of the seeds (bazenjya) and store them. They pound them in times of need, remove the rind, and take the kernel, which they grind in their mills and also make "kurra" from it. They also cultivate onions, garlic, and small peppers.