PLEASURES OF PILGRIMAGE 143 The Abyssinians cherish a vast respect for any one who has killed an elephant or a lion. Indeed the exploit is almost like a patent of nobility. You are entitled thereby to wear a turquoise in your left ear, and to hang elephants' tails over your doorway. To have the… … SKINS AND HORNS PACKED UP AT TADECIIAMALKA. (Photograph by Captain Powell-Cotton.) soon come to understand firearms, and immediately attack any one they see going about with a gun in his hand. I heard a story of a Yankee who went out to shoot elephants in Abyssinia. One day an elephant caught sieht…
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