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on all fruits of their toil, which I believe it does not enter 
into their minds to refuse. They are therefore, at least, 
a subordinated race. 
They speak the Galla tongue, and have no other ; 
but ethnologically there is a great difference between 
the two peoples. Physiognomically the Wasania bear 
a stronger resemblance to the Negro races than to the 
people under whom they live, with whom they chiefly 
hold intercourse, and whose language they speak. 
They live entirely by the chase, and are as wild 
and dexterous a set of Nimrods as ever twanged a 
bow. Such being their chief pursuit, they live almost 
altogether in the woods. They have their gandas, or 
villages, but they seldom reside in them, for the reason 
mentioned. It would be impossible for them to return 
to their homes every night : they therefore sleep in the 
open air, or at best put up a bee-hive hut, so small that 
it will only cover a single person sitting on his haunches, 
or, when lying down, the lapper part of his body, his 
legs necessarily stretching far beyond the doon In 
this way they range very far beyond the limits of 
their own domains, the Gallas naturally not objecting 
to encroachments upon their soil, since their own re- 
venues depend to a great extent upon the success of 
the hunters. The chief weapon used by them is a 
powerful bow. The arrow is a deadly-looking instru- 
menty freighted with a heavy head of iron, cruelly 
barbed, but I believe not poisoned. The Galla knife in 
a sheath, tucked in their girdle^ and an axe^ complete 
their armoury. 
The animals hunted are principally the elephant, 
buffalo, and the hippopotamus ; but these regions 
abound in most of the fauna natural to tropical Africa, 
