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Show Queer Salutation. The Abyssinians drop on their knees and lass the earth when they meet. In saluting a woman the Mandinkas take her hand, put it to their nose and smell it twice. The Egyptians Btretch out one hand, then lay it on their breast and bow the head. Among the less civilized tribes of the old world, say, the Kalmucks Kal-mucks and in Polynesia, the custom of rubbing noses is pretty general. Perhaps Per-haps the most extraordinary form of salutation is to be found in Tibet, where the natives put out their tongues, gnash their teeth and scratch their ears. Lander Lan-der und Volkerkunde. j |