A: CRUEL. PRACTICE. 207 
Every time I killed an animal and gave a Boran some 
of the meat, the man would immediately ask to be allowed 
to take away a small piece of the hide with him to add to 
his collection. The Boran, as a rule, do not circumcise, 
neither do they perform the plastic operations on their 
young girls, as the Somalis are accustomed to do. It is 
most extraordinary to see them drink the blood of every 
animal they kill. If 
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rotid artery, and after ff 
the blood has ceased 
pouring out from this 
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in jets, so as to be 
caught in basins, they make several more deep gashes in 
the neck, and applying their mouths to these, suck the 
remaining blood as it oozes out, — the animal dying while 
they are drinking. Not a scrap of the animal is wasted, — 
lungs and all the other viscera being eaten. I sent several 
presents of fancy chains, looking-glasses, beads, cloth, brass, 
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etc., as a present to Abofilato, at the same time advising him 
that I expected him to afford us every facility in travelling. 
If he wanted to fight, come and fight; we were ready for 
him. (At this his brother and the other chiefs threw up 
