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have described the comic side of " the drinking of 

 warm blood " in their interesting account of the Kikuyu 

 people. 



They make an alcoholic drink from the juice of the 

 sugar cane. The juice is obtained by pounding the 

 cane in a trough with wooden pestles. This is the 



A Man of Kikuyu with a gallipot in 

 the distended lobe of the ear. 



work of the women. A fermented drink is also made from 

 honey. The Wa-Kikuyu are fond of honey, and honey 

 barrels are seen fixed in the branches of an" isolated 

 tree. A honey box in a tree in the Kikuyu country is 

 a feature in the landscape. It is a wooden cylinder, 



