CHELICUT. 
295 
On the 7th of February^ while these transactions were passing, 
he went out with a party of the Lasta soldiers on one of their 
marauding expeditions, and in the course of the day they got 
possession of several head of cattle, with which, towards evening, 
they made the best of their way back to the camp. They had 
then fasted for many hours, and still a considerable distance 
remained for them to travel. Under these circumstances, a sol- 
dier attached to the party, proposed cutting out the shulada'' 
from one of the cows they were driving before them^ to satisfy 
the cravings of their hunger. This term'' Mr. Pearce did not 
at first understand, but he was not long left in doubt upon the 
subject ; for, the others having assented, they laid hold of the 
animal by the horns, threw it down, and proceeded without 
farther ceremony to the operation. This consisted in cutting out 
two pieces of flesh from the buttock, near the tail, which toge- 
ther, Mr. Pearce supposed, might weigh about a pound ; the 
pieces so cut out being called shulada,'' and composing, as far 
as I could ascertain, part of the two glutei maximi,'' or larger 
muscles of the thigh.'' As soon as they had taken these away, 
they sewed up the wounds, plaistered them over with cow-dung, 
and drove the animal forwards, while they divided among their 
party the still reeking steaks. 
They wanted Mr. Pearce to partake of this meat, raw as 
it came from the cow, but he was too much disgusted with the 
scene to comply with their oiFer ; though he declared that he 
was so hungry at the time, that he could without remorse have 
eaten raw flesh, had the animal been killed in the ordinary way ; 
a practice which, I may here observe, he never could before be 
