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I presented him with a cloth; and he gave me as much maere meal as a man could carry, with a large basket of ground-nuts.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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I decided to make sheds on the west side, and send over for food, which, thanks to the Providence which watches over us, we found at last in a good supply of maere and some ground-nuts; but through, all this upland region the trees yielding bark-cloth, or nyanda, are so abundant, that the people are all well-clothed with it, and care but little for our cloth.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The appetite is good, but we have no proper food, chiefly maere meal or beans, or mapemba or ground-nuts, rarely a fowl.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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They use a wooden hoe for sowing their maere, it is a sort of V-shaped implement, made from a branch with another springing out of it, about an inch in diameter at the sharp point, and with it they claw the soil after scattering the seed; about a dozen young men were so employed in the usual small patches as we passed in the morning.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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It is not the unpleasantness of eating unpalatable food that teases one, but we are never satisfied; I could brace myself to dispose of a very unsavoury mess, and think no more about it; but this maere engenders a craving which plagues day and night incessantly.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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Merere is very liberal with his cattle, and gives every one an ox: there is no rice, but maize and maere.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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We have hard lines ourselves; nothing but a little maere porridge and dampers.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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We get a little maere here, and prefer it to being drenched and our goods spoiled.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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It is very bitter, but we used it as a relish to the maere porridge: none of the animal is wasted; skin and all is cut up and sold, not one of us would touch it with the hand if we had aught else, for the gravy in which we dip our porridge is like an aqueous solution of aloes, but it prevents the heartburn, which maere causes when taken alone.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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We remain a day at Malambwe, but get nothing save a little maere, [42] which grates in the teeth and in the stomach.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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