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built, and with the muscles of the arms and 

 legs rather small and flat ; but the chests are 

 well developed, and the pectoral and back 

 muscles invariably stand out finely. The 

 large, flat feet of the African are not infre- 

 quently replaced by slender, well-formed feet, 

 with high insteps. As Mohammedans, they 

 eat the meat of no animals which have not 

 had their throats cut, and been properly bled 

 before death. This is not always convenient 

 or easy to do with wild game, and especially 

 with elephants and rhinoceros. In fact, only 

 one rhinoceros was eaten on the trip, which 

 one we managed to bleed properly before he 

 died. Unlike the Mohammedans of some 

 countries, they do not adhere to the rule of 

 eating only animals with cloven hoofs. 



One kind of antelope only — the gerenuk— 

 our men refused to eat ; for what reason we 

 were unable to make out, unless that it may 

 be they held these animals as somewhat 

 sacred, because they made praying mats from 

 their skins. Birds and fishes are also ex- 

 cluded from their list of foods, apparently on 

 no religious grounds, but "because our fa- 

 thers did not eat them." The fact that these 

 natives do not eat fish would tend to substan- 



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