376 USE OF THE ENTRAILS WORN 



when it is agreed that the compensation, consisting 

 always of a nnmber of cattle, shall be killed and 

 eaten by the previously contending tribes, or when 

 an animal has received some serious injury, or is 

 about to die from disease, are the only occasions of 

 indulgence in animal food. 



Grain of any kind, dates, or vegetables, are 

 unknown as the products of the country 

 of Adal south of Owssa, although many parts 

 are well calculated for the cultivation of all 

 kinds of useful tropical plants. Cotton, indigo, 

 and sugar, I am sure would thrive most luxu- 

 riantly along the broad valley of the river of 

 Killalu, called Waha-ambillee, and which extends 

 from the west of Lake Abhibhad to the extensive 

 and widely-spreading plains of Errur to the south, 

 to the base of the Oburah and Goror range. 



In my notes written on this spot, I find the follow- 

 ing observation recorded. That portion of the 

 entrails, with which the Dankalli, in common with 

 the other savage inhabitants of this part of Africa, 

 are said to adorn themselves, is the omentum, or 

 peritoneal covering of the bowels, and which corre- 

 sponds with what, in our butchers' shops, is called 

 the leaf, and from which lard is rendered. This 

 omentum abounds with fat, easily melted by the 

 sun. It is taken and twisted by the hands into a 

 kind of rope, which is tied around the neck, the 

 ends hanging low behind the back. It is not, there- 

 fore, for ornament that entrails are worn by these 



