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Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)

Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 164

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ey make baskets for fish, and neat cages for quails by plaiting grass. The quail cages are quite a feature of their villages ; they are suspended on long poles hung at .a slant near the entrances and each cage contains one quail. AYhen in use snares are set in the neighbourhood of the poles and the… … The Stone Wall of a Kavirondo Village. be a virgin on her wedding day, and this matter has to be demonstrated in public. As in civilised communities, even the highest, the names of children are often suggested by some event happening at the time. For example, as Hobley points out, when Europeans…

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