Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla (1900) (14742596196)

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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla

Year: 1900 (1900s)

Authors: Jones, Charles H

Subjects: Missions

Publisher: New York : Hurst

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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thatthree men, including Bellaal, had deserted and joined Mo-hammed. Inshallah, he exclaimed, the vultures shall picktheir bones ! The words produced a great effect, at the time,on those who heard them; and a still deeper one when theywere afterwards terribly fulfilled. The next stoppage was at Tarrangolle, the chief town of La-tooka, thirteen miles beyond Latome. Baker declares the La-tookas to be the finest savages he ever saw. They are nearly sixfeet high, with fine foreheads, good features, and handsomebodies. In manners, they are frank, naive, good-humored,and polite ; and are thus in utter contrast with the tribes whichsurround them. They seem to be of a Galla or AbyssinianAsiatic origin. The head-dress of the men is very remarkable—their coiffure taking from eight to ten years to bring it toperfection. The hair is at first felted with fine twine; asthe fresh hair grows through this, the twine process is repeated,until at last a compact substance is formed, an inch and a half

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A LION HUNT. SIB SAMUEL BAKER. 299 thick, trained into the form of a helmet, with a frontlet andcrest of copper. Of course, they never disturb this, and it laststhem their lifetime. They ornament it with beads, cowries, os-trich feathers, and other decorations, but have not a particle ofclothing of any kind upon their bodies. Tarrangolle (120 miles N. E. of Debonos station at Faloro,where Speke met Mohammed) contains about 3,000 houses.It is strongly fortified by palisades, with low entrances at inter-vals, these being closed at night with thorn-bushes. The mainstreet is broad, but all the others are so narrow as to admitonly one cow at a time. These narrow lanes lead to the kraalsin various parts of the town in which the cattle, their onlywealth, are housed ; and, in consequence of the narrowness ofthe approaches, they are easily defended, a matter of momentin a country where cattle-stealing is prevalent. The houses forthe people are of conical shape, and, as is almost univer-sally t

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