Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — What They Eat in Africa. [ARTICLE]

What They Eat in Africa.

An African correspondent of Food and Jfrealth, speaking at the habits of the people and incidents, says: Of course hunter’s food, such as elephant foot, buffalo hump, sea cow, giraffe, ana the hundreds of different Finds of deer that abound in various parts of the country are all more or less good eating, especially when you have a good supply of Dame Nature’s sauce, hunger, on hand. I also found the coney or rock rabbit a fair dish, although too much like a large rat to look pleasant on the table. The natives of the country are not, as a rule, great meat eaters, living generally on corn (called there, mealies,) milk, pumpkins, and a sort of sugar cane, now and then going in for a feast of meat I have often considered whether to this way of living may be ascribed the really wonderful manner in which they recover from wounds. In the Zulu war I saw four persons wounded in the legs with bullets, one ol them especially having received a bullet just below the knee, smashing all the bones, and leaving a hole that you could see through- The doctors said the only hope for any of them was amputation. This they refused to allow, and they would do nothing but pour cold water from time to time. When I last saw them all but the worst could walk alone, aud his wound looked healthy, the bone having grown together, and knitted quite strongly. No white man could have lived without an operation. On the other hand, these men soon succumb to illness or disease.