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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world : being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology Manners and customs Savages
Publisher: Hartford : J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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morsels, but have an oddmethod of drawing them slowly through thefire, and thus eating them as fast as they arecooked. Moreover, the intestines, as wellas the paunch, are always useful as water-vessels. This latter article, when it is takenfrom a small animal, is always reserved forcooking purposes, being filled with scraps ofmeat, fat, blood, and other ingredients, andtlien cooked. Scotch travellers have compared this dish to tlinative land. The illustration opposite represents thewild and animated scene which accompa-nies the death of an elephant. Some twoor three hours are sujijiosed to have elapsedsince the elephant waskilled, and the chiefhas just arrived at the spot. He is shownseated in the foreground, his shield andassagais stacked behind him, while his pageis holding a cup of beer, and two of his haggis of their
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COOKING ELElHANTS FOOT. (See page 132.) (133) SLAUGHTER IN THE RAVINE. 135 chief men are offering him tlie tuslis of tlieelephant. In the middle distance are seenthe Kaffirs preparing the oven for the recep-tion of the elephants foot. Several men areseen engaged in raking out the embers fromthe hole, shielding themselves from the heatby leafy branches of trees, while one of therakers has just left his post, being scorchedto the utmost limit of endurance, and is inthe act of handing over his pole to a com-rade who is about to take his place at thefire. Two more Kaffirs are shown in the actof rolling the huge foot to the oven, andstrips of the elephants flesh are seen sus-peniled from the boughs in order to be con-verted into biltongue. It is a ratherremarkable fact that this simple process ofcutting the meat into strips and drying itin the air has the effect of rendering sev-eral unsavory meats quite palatable, takingaway the powerful odors which deter evena Kaffir, and much more a whi

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