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Through a check dam and reservoir across the dry bed of a 'barsati' (rain-fed) river, the village has succeeded in raising the water table from 90 feet to 45 feet in just 10 years.

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The group's ideological hangout was a barsati near the campus where a lecturer at the university's Psychology department stayed.

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Her dress consisted of an old _barsati_, dirtier even than her maid's.

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I then told him to settle with the chief himself, and give me the account, which amounted to three barsati, two sahari, and three yards merikani; but the donkeys were never alluded to.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

I motioned him to take my chair, which, after he sat down upon it, I was very sorry for, as he stained the seat all black with the running colour of one of the new barsati cloths he had got from me, which, to improve its appearance, he had saturated with stinking butter, and had tied round his loins.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Beluches and pagazis, to explain away the reason of my having left his house so rudely, and to tender apologies, which were accompanied, as an earnest of good-will, with a large hongo, consisting of one barsati, one dhoti merikani, and one gora kiniki, as also an intimation that I would pay him a visit the next day.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

The dress she wore consisted of an old barsati, presented by some Arab merchant, and was if anything dirtier than her maid's attire.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Baraka, in the same way as I did at M'yonga's, directing that it should be limited to the small sum of one barsati and four yards kiniki.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

I gave in return for his present one barsati, five dhotis merikani and two dhotis kiniki, with a promise of some gunpowder when we arrived at

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

His dress was the ordinary barsati; his arms were set off by heavy brass and copper ornaments encircling the wrists, and by numberless sambo, or thin circles made from the twisted fibres of an aloetic plant, on each of which a single infi, or white porcelain bead resembling a little piece of tobacco-pipe, was strung; these ranged in massive rows down the whole of his upper arm.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845