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" Eiver about 120 yards of clear water ; current about two miles per hour. Found quantities of natron on the marshy ground bordering the river. Had a turkey for dinner, a " cadeau " from Koorshid Aga, and, as a great wonder, the kisras (a sort of brown... "
Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 407
1868
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The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of ..., Volume 1

Sir Samuel White Baker - Africa, East - 1867 - 432 pages
...and, as a great wonder, the kisras (a sort of brown pancake in lieu of bread) were free from sand. I must have swallowed a good-sized millstone since...been in Africa, in the shape of grit rubbed from the moorhaka, or grinding-stone. The moorhaka, when new, is a large flat stone, weighing about forty pounds...
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The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of ..., Volume 1

Sir Samuel White Baker - Albert, Lake - 1868 - 430 pages
...and, as a great wonder, the kisras (a sort of brown pancake in lieu of bread) were free from sand. I must have swallowed a good-sized millstone since...been in Africa, in the shape of grit rubbed from the moorhaka, or grinding-stone. The moorhaka, when new, is a large flat stone, weighing about forty pounds...
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The Et-cetera magazine

1872 - 644 pages
...tribes. Indeed the latter gives the following interesting notice relative to an apparatus of this kind. " I must have swallowed a "good-sized millstone since...in the shape of grit rubbed from the moortraka or grindiug-stone. The moortraka, when new, is a large flat stone weighing about forty pounds. Upon this...
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Brave Lives and Noble

Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...some kisras, a sort of dry brown pancake, eaten in lieu of bread, is free from sand, remarking : — " I must have swallowed a good-sized mill-stone since...been in Africa, in the shape of grit rubbed from the rnoorhaka, or grindingstones, which weigh when new about forty pounds ; upon these, corn is rubbed...
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