This may account for their making so much of it into beer.

The beer these Batoka or Bawe brew is not the sour and intoxicating boala or pombe found among some other tribes, but sweet, and highly nutritive, with only a slight degree of acidity, sufficient to render it a pleasant drink.

The people were all plump, and in good condition; and we never saw a single case of intoxication among them, though all drank abundance of this liting, or sweet beer.

Both men and boys were eager to work for very small pay.

Our men could hire any number of them to carry their burdens for a few beads a day.