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So the task of buying food and drink along the way fell on Khasim Tamwar, who needs must learn enough elementary Amharic to enable him to ask for woha (water), halib (milk), engard (bread) and quantah (dried meat), while putting on his most charming Hyderabadi smile and proffering the little sticks of salt which are the local small change and the only currency in the country apart from the Maria Theresa dollar — known as the gourshi, and worth five salt sticks.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

engard: Good article, but, no one is discussing the complete lack

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