Show STRANGE E PRACTISES lf Ou r tnt t I il 11 il 1 i 5 S lire are re l 10 ly y un an n 3 sent into the comparatively un en unknown 11 known countries between ti tIll the Abyssinian capital and end the northwest of lAke Uke Rudolf In the neighborhood o otho of tho th An boundary The expedition which was wu accompanied pitied by the Ih secretary Ir of the legation at t Adit lella Ababa was wip 11 composed says lai Reuter of ot over ever 1000 men mII and anet was II sent lent ent out by the to 10 rapture an Abyssinian outlaw out outlaw outI law I who ho had been murdering and anti raid raidIng Ing In territory It was wal wasa a ny It eight months montha mon and failed tailed to cap capture lure ture For considerable raba distances the exp expedition po was followed by natives natii uti who hl hid l lUm themselves Um h amid the tile thick gnu fir nine nille feet high bordering bord ln the path and Il It became to toni fortl fy ty the camps camp and make mke every ery night The route followed by b the th expedition front from AdU 41 Ababa Abiba to the passes paNt through thi Interesting little state tt of ot which Is III presided over by lt It Its own king Aba Abe the thu la last t of the Ibe rulers front from whom wb tn Menelek lute bu his hll title of KIDI of of or Xo o 0 II Is ever seen peon without his hta or Dt her lier parasol of oC stripe of leaves Jean and the th la ladles adies A dies of the country wear wr embroidered white blouse skills of hide and coiffures of black hair too often some one en elset eIMe Fashions law I mu must t to jq obeyed byed O and lId th tin i II Is a muter matter of at his 1111 Deron and Kaffa Kalfa Ii lie fertile and nd but bul mountainous countries whose whom hOte Inhabitant Inhabitants are art all alike called by the Abs Ab Some om of th the tribes aro r splendid men rich copper ro r In color rotor well Ill built and muscular with lIh pat pit terns terne burnt on itt chest cheat And thigh and innocent of till 1111 ti clothing sav aa t their arm anti armlets armlets lets lei and aM orna mm n While lh the expedition was a al out nut outI ou I at nt M i th Ah po post t 1 III In th fruth M t th Ih linal king kins diN He lie wm was AI sewn aen up Ut U in a fresh hide log Ia in III it a hd on nn tin tilt floor toor of or hu Ill 11 hut hUI hith Hlo I In Ira a II tearing In the forest and front from miles s around his hili subjects came to the LIM lying Th ground of lbs tb clearing was of clay All round were rows row of huge bUill BOgo gogo palms paints and on one side Ide four spacious huts IUt an and aneS a curious mound By H B the aide olde of the th huts hut thousands thousand of cow 0 bells brill sweet In tone ton as ii those In a SHUM 1 upland valley were hung hune on rude rud trestles trestle trull and swung back backward ward rd and nd forward by hy hands of women omel under the direction of an old witch The hard han level flooring of the cle rin shook hook Wider under the feet t t of hundreds hundred ut naked warriors chanting a wild lId mi Oil of death now no advancing In a rush now retreating II hI and leaving lea two t 0 of their number num r In the open who with I I I I i I I I their spears held horizontally horl horizontally ally all Just juat over their shafts shaft quivering like a snake make before it II strikes danced a wild war dance danl keeping time lime timeto to the chant of the Ibe chorus When hen the din grew louder the Ih crown crowd Iro surged round the tbt dead dd kings hut hUI sod rod Only dewy dell parted and through the lane lue thus formed dashed a gleaming figure adorned with a leopard skin orange doled colored feathers beads b d and bands band of copper and ond brass bries bra and amid Ivory lory round his hi neck and nd arms Three times he rushed round the nearing clearing followed by 1 y the Ibe Ing InK warriors warrior and then disappeared aa II quickly as he had come rom The new king kin had hid been chosen These Thees The tribes have hu each their own customs and dialect In III one on cue the UC ruler might never neer touch louch water and when aben hie hii to pee ree reea Hea a white man nan made him break bresk the tu III tuba ba hi his hili man mu had to 10 curry carry rArI him over oer every lest he hI should be bI defiled d eft led ledIn In another tribe when a II father Is I getting nn on In years lal the son n bids him himi him i limb Into H It tree trIll and nd jump down from front the branches If the old oli man stagger on landing the th son IOn spears apiary him on the spot 1 01 his hili usefulness Is IJ over oer One On tribe had a custom of sewing visitors up In fresh fifth hides and nd leaving them to be killed by b the con lOn contraction contraction traction of the skits In tn another enother aMI her th Ih only orthodox way say 1 nf ot denting dealing with lIh strangers was wae to tn tie them In a bundle tend and roll mil them over or a II precipice In the Burma orm country where h re the Ih na 11 tins thes MS are elephant hunters and eaters the Ih women are of nf a particularly re H repulsive 11 VI type They make makr a nf of disfiguring themselves by b their lower loner lips until they hung hang down to tin tb III breast This Thle Is II brough i hut about i by h means I if f n II saucer aUrer of or eldy rill t tiey y Insert In the tower lower Up lip t j I f v II London l j iI i I |