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FORMATION OF SKULLS. 
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novel repast than he sat down among them and almost 
choked himself by cramming handfuls of the hot rice 
and honey into his mouth, which yawned like that of 
an old hippopotamus. The men did not at all approve 
of this assistance, but as it is the height of bad man¬ 
ners in Arab etiquette to repel a self-invited guest 
from the general meal, he was not interfered with, 
and was thus enabled to swallow the share of about 
three persons. 
Legge, although worse than the rest of his tribe, 
had a similar formation of head. The Bari and those 
of Tollogo and Ellyria have generally bullet-shaped 
heads, low foreheads, skulls heavy behind the ears 
and above the nape of the neck: altogether their 
appearance is excessively brutal, and they are armed 
with bows six feet long, and arrows horribly barbed 
and poisoned. 
