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  • Very simple: these thirty-six men have, according to regulation, seven tents, and certain personal effects, and they must have "potio" or a ration of one and a half pounds per diem.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Interim faciei prospiciendum ut ipsa refrigeretur; utrumque praestabit frequens potio ex aqua rosarum, violarum, nenupharis, &c. 4363.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But against the wooden chop boxes, the bags of cornmeal _potio_, the bundles of canvas that made up some of the loads, the long safari sticks went _tap, tap, tap_, in rhythm.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "All night I sat by my fire cooking _potio_ and meat," he protested.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It has tents and _potio_, and _chakula_ [17], and blankets and beads and wire and many other things to a quantity impossible to say.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "Nevertheless," said Mali-ya-bwana, who as co-leader was privileged to more open speech, "_potio_ and meat are better than meat only."

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • They saw _potio_ in sight again; and, immediately, long grass for beds.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • But you do not bring us orders from _Bwana_ Nyele for _potio_.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • C. returned the next day from V. 's boma, bringing more potio and some trade goods.

    African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

  • The immediate result was five loads of _potio_ brought by safari men to "somewhere in Africa," and thence transported by Simba's men to Simba's camp.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

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