Show STRANGE SAVAGE CUSTOM Weird Tribal Ceremony of the Natives of the Anglo Abyssldnn Boundary Some remarkable tribal customs are reported by an oxpedltlon sent Into the comparatively unknown countries between tho Abyssinian capital and the northwest of Lake Rudolf in tho neighborhood of tho AngloAbyssinian boundary While tho expedition was fitting out at Majl the Abyssinian post In tho southwest the local Shnnknlln Icing died Ho wns sown up in n fresh hldo bag In a sitting position and placed on the floor of his hut which stood in a clearing In the forest and from miles around his subjects came to tho lying in state The ground of the clearing was of hard beaten city All round wore thick rows of hugo gage palms nod on one side four spacious well thatched huts and a curious mound probably sacrificial By tho side of the huts thousands of cow bells sweet In tone as thoso In n Swiss upland valley were hung on rude trestles and swung backwards and forwards by bands of women under the direction of an old witch Tho hard level flooring of the clear ing shook under the feet of hundreds of naked warriors chanting n wild song of death now advancing In a rhythmic rush now retreating and I leaving l two of their number In tho open who with their 12foot spears hold horizontally just over their shoulders the shafts qlverlng like n snake before it strikes danced a wild war dance keeping time to tho chant of the chorus When the din grow louder tho crowd surged round tho dead kings hut suddenly patted and through the lano thus formed dashed a gleaming figure adorned with n leopard skin orange colored ostrich feathers hoa san s-an bands of copper and brass and Ivory round his neck and arms Threo times ho rushed round tho clenrlng followed by the shouting singing warriors and then disappeared disap-peared as quickly as ho hud come Tho new king had been chosen |