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When these holidays are observed, it is usual for the Duke to invite all the captains and super-cargoes of vessels in the river, when he gives them an excellent dinner, with plenty of palm-wine. The dinner consists, generally, of goats, wild pigs, monkeys, fish, plain yams, foofoo, &c.

Here were to be seen weavers, tailors, women spinning cotton, others reeling it off; some selling foofoo and accassons, others crying yams and paste; little markets at every green tree; holy men counting their beads, and dissolute slaves drinking wabum, palm wine.

Stale, nee Cohenheimer, the Human Harpoon! Say, Bunch! he's a joke. I caught him the day he first left the blacksmith shop, some ten years ago, with a boathook in each hand and a toasting fork between his teeth. That duck isn't a critic, he's only a Foofoo." "What the devil is a Foofoo?" Bunch asked. "A Foofoo is something that tried to happen and then lost the address," I explained.

The latter dish is a preparation of boiled yams, which are pounded in a mortar until they obtain a tenacity that will admit of being drawn out like birdlime. While the Duke is at dinner, or breakfast, he usually has some foofoo before him.

Transcribe letter of No to Y. M. C. A. Secretary. 12.30 Dr. Wardoff came to Tiffin. He hath given me six months to make answer to his clothes or suit. 2 p.m. Unbound feet of Luey See. Delicious operation. Time two hours. 5 p.m. Took from left ear of FooFoo bamboo tree. Upon mine ear fall the sound of approaching feet-steps. Ewing making entrance.

The travellers took their leave, and repaired to the house prepared for them, which consisted of three large huts inside a square; they had not been long there, when a present arrived from Yarro, consisting of milk, eggs, bananas, fried cheese, curds, and foofoo. The latter is the common food of both rich and poor in Youriba, and is of two kinds, white and black.