. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. rst time as itripped up the earth preparatory to planting,he exclaimed: Why, that is a wonderful thing!It can do more in a day than ten wives! Plow indeed these women do, scratchingthe earth a bit, and scattering the seed broad-cast. A missionary who taught some of ourgirls to plant the maize in hills was politelysmiled at, while they whispered to each other,She will soon be asking us to count the grainswe plant in each hill! Often the gardens areseveral miles from the hut, and to these thewomen trudge in the rainy sea
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. rst time as itripped up the earth preparatory to planting,he exclaimed: Why, that is a wonderful thing!It can do more in a day than ten wives! Plow indeed these women do, scratchingthe earth a bit, and scattering the seed broad-cast. A missionary who taught some of ourgirls to plant the maize in hills was politelysmiled at, while they whispered to each other,She will soon be asking us to count the grainswe plant in each hill! Often the gardens areseveral miles from the hut, and to these thewomen trudge in the rainy season, with theirbabies on their backs. With short-handledhoes they cultivate the vegetables or grain,working vigorously up and down and in theprocess almost joggling the poor little blackbabies heads off. The loads they carry upon their heads,baskets of vegetables, jars of water, bundlesb» of firewood and the like, are almost incred-ible. But in compensation therefor the nativewoman has an ease and grace of carriagewhich it is said would be the envy of My Ladyin AND AMONG THE KRAALS 121 AN AFRICAN LARDER No housewifes calendar of menus hangs inthis womans kitchen. There is no kitchen,and between her and her neighbor there is norivalry in the preparation of new and tastydishes. For it is the same old thing both womencook for the two meals of the day, year in andyear out. The grain most used where our mis-sionary girls are at work is maize. This break-fast food and dinner as well, however, far fromcoming in a germ-proof package, a premiumcoupon perhaps lurking within, must be liter-ally prepared by the housewife from the groundup. The sowing, the harvesting, the poundingin a mortar, the cooking, are all the labor ofher own hands. The finished product of thiscombination of meal and water, cooked in theclay kettle over the hut fire, is a thick varietyof corn-meal mush, ordinarily without salt,because salt in Africa is scarce. I have it uponthe word of one of our missionar
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