272 Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
the face and making the latter look by contrast un- 
naturally small Both men and women delight in 
besmearing themselves from head to foot with rancid 
butter. 
In their occupations the Gallas of these regions 
are exclusively pastoral; unlike the northern tribes; 
they know nothing of the cultivation of the soil, and 
consider themselves much above such work. The 
• men do nothing but superintend their flocks and 
herds, eat, drink, talk away their time, and sleep. 
They have their ''tumtus" (craftsmen, smiths), who 
make their arms, ornaments, and utensils ; but these 
men are looked upon as slaves. The women make 
"sororos" (beautifully shaped and well-made water and 
milk vessels), and " subas" (bags of bark-string); they 
also build the huts, make the butter, do the house- 
hold work, and all drudgery. 
For food they profess to eat nothing but what their 
flocks and herds supply them with. They live 
principally upon flesh-meat and milk. They are 
very fond of blood mixed with milk, and indeed the 
pure blood itself. We have seen them drinking it as 
it gushed from the throat of the slaughtered animal ; 
but such is their fondness for it, that it is common for 
them to open a vein in the neck of the living ox, drink 
their fill, then close up the opening, and let the beast 
go. Many of them eke out their living with wild- 
fruits and honey, and when among agricultural people 
they do not object to eat rice, Indian corn, etc., 
but they consider it effeminate to indulge in such 
things. The flesh of wild animals they do eat, while 
they object to fowls as a kind of vulture, and to fish 
as allied to the serpent. Intoxicants they brew from 
