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  • Pokot: musyoon, musuu (plural) Sanya: misinga, msinga Somali: gidami Swahili: mtama Teso: imomwa Tharaka: munya

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  • Forthwith the whole village, chief included, went to cut up and carry off the meat, and there followed revelry by night, the chiefs wives brewing beer from the mtama, and all getting drunk as well as gorged.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Like me, they were weary to death of mtama porridge, with or without milk, and the sight of Schillingschen's distant campfire with a great pot resting on stones in the midst of it whetted appetite for white man's food.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Kazimoto wrapped an enormous mound of cold mtama pudding in a cloth and went his way, prophesying darkly of murder and sudden death lurking behind rocks and trees, as unwishful to be alone as a terrier without a master, but much too faithful to refuse duty.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Forthwith the whole village, chief included, went to cut up and carry off the meat, and there followed revelry by night, the chiefs wives brewing beer from the mtama, and all getting drunk as well as gorged.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Like me, they were weary to death of mtama porridge, with or without milk, and the sight of Schillingschen's distant campfire with a great pot resting on stones in the midst of it whetted appetite for white man's food.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Kazimoto wrapped an enormous mound of cold mtama pudding in a cloth and went his way, prophesying darkly of murder and sudden death lurking behind rocks and trees, as unwishful to be alone as a terrier without a master, but much too faithful to refuse duty.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • It was then sown with what seed-corn we had brought with us -- chiefly wheat and barley -- supplemented to the extent of about three-fourths by African wheat and _mtama_ corn.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • We were literally overloaded with milk, honey, butter, all kinds of flesh and fowl, _mtama_ cakes, bananas, sweet potatoes, yams, and a great choice of very delicious fruits.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • That evening in a hut assigned to us by the chief, squatting on the trodden cow-dung floor, leaning against the dried-mud sides, with a little fire of sticks in the midst to give us light and keep mosquitoes at a distance at the expense of almost unbearable heat, we ate porridge made from mtama as they call their kaffir corn, and washed it down with milk -- good rich cows 'milk, milked by Kazimoto into our own metal pot instead of their unwashed gourds.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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