Burrows, Guy, Canisius, Edgar. Campaign amongst cannibals, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R.A. Everett & Co. · leaf 267
im much. He is now the nominal head of the Basoko people, and has a very fair idea of his own importance as such. He daily came to visit me when I was at the headquarters station, and invariably with the demand for a drink. His idea of a drink was distinctly peculiar. Accustomed as he was to the… … WORKWOMEN OF BASOKO. of red pepper and a lump or two of sugar. A tumbler of this mixture he would drink off as we should drink a glass of water. The pepper remaining at the bottom of the glass he would carefully scoop out with his forefinger and swallow. He was never satisfied with one, and…
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