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I made him au-fait as to my intentions, produced, as "mata-bicho," a bottle of gin, and sent a dash of costa-fina, to which a few yards of satin-stripe were thrown in. The gin was drunk with the usual greed, and the presents were received with the normal objections. "Why should not I, a king like Nessudikira, receive a 'dash' equal to his?" "He is my host, I pay him for bed and board!"
Proceedings began with the "mata-bicho" de rigueur, the inevitable preliminary and conclusion of all life-business between birth and burial. Similarly the Fulas of the Windward coast, who as strict Moslem will not drink fermented liquors, hold a cup of rum to be the sovereignest thing in the world for taenia.
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