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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 
IX 
hollowed out from the trunk of a tree until it consists 
of a shell about two inches thick ; the exterior is trimmed 
Honey Barrel in a tree in a Kikuyu maize shamba. 
sometimes quite smoothly, and the ends are occluded 
by two rounded pieces of wood let into a groove so 
bhat they appear like the ends of a barrek The bees 
