Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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foot in the ground; then they kindle a fire over it and let the fire burn for two or three days. By the end of that time the meat is very tasteful, and can almost be scooped out with a spoon. This is a great delicacy, even to white men who may have had many a dish of pigs knuckles and other delicious viands of civilization. Mr. Baker showed me the pelt and the terrible teeth of the lion killed by young Martini two weeks before our visit. The other hunter, who was killed by the lion was brought to Mr. Bakers house. Baker had a pharmacopoeia and often treated the ordinary diseases of the natives with great success. He had been around the world in many capacities, as a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, a traveller. Accordingly they brought the poor disemboweled Taveta man to his house. But all the kindly English Commissioner could do was insufficient to heal the terrible wounds, and the man died in a few hours. Mr. Dutkewich and I determined to spend a week or two in the Taveta Forest and make photographs
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In the Taveta Forest 173 and moving pictures of Martini and the interesting Wataveta tribe. We were fortunate enough to have with us in our excursion Count Coudenhove. The Count told us many interesting and comparatively unknown things about the tribes. The Waparri, who dwell in the mountains near by, he says, are a mild folk who have some very simple habits; almost as primitive as their fellow primates the baboons. For example, when the food supply of the Waparri is low, infanticide among them is common. The mother takes the child to the brink of one of the many precipices with which the country abounds; leaves it on the edge of the rocks asleep, and when the little one awakes it turns and rolls off its perilous cradle into the depths beneath. If the upper teeth of a baby come in before the under teeth the fact is considered unlucky and the child is often killed. If there are twins, one of the babies is usually done away with. On the way to the Taveta Forest the Count also told me a story of a baboon

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