Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in the society of his own sex he will spend the greater part of the day talking and laughing, smoking, or torpid with sleep. Occasionally he sits down to play. As with barbarians generally, gambling in him is a passion. The normal game is our "heads and tails," the implement, a flat stone, a rough circle of tin, or the bottom of a broken pot. The more civilised have 200 HIS SPORTS AND PASTIMES. learned the "bas" of the coast, a kind of "tables" with counters and cups hollowed in a solid plank. Many of the Wanyamwezi have been compelled by this indulgence to sell themselves into slavery after playing through their property; they even stake their aged mothers against the equivalent of an old lady in these lands,--a cow or a pair of goats. As may be imagined, squabbles are perpetual, they are almost always, however, settled amongst fellow-villagers with bloodless weapons. Others, instead of gambling, seek some employment which, working the hands and leaving the rest of the body and the mind at ease, is ever a favourite with the Asiatic and the African; they whittle wood, pierce and wire their pipe sticks--an art in which all are adepts,--shave one another's heads, pluck out their beards, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and prepare and polish their weapons. "At about one p.m., the African, unless otherwise employed, returns to his hut to eat the most substantial and the last meal of the day, which has been cooked by his women. Eminently gregarious, however, he often prefers the Iwanza as a dining room, where his male children, relatives, and friends meet during the most important hour of the twentyfour. With the savage and the barbarian food is the all and all of life, food is his thought by day, food is his dream by night. The civil...
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Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in the society of his own sex he will spend the greater part of the day talking and laughing, smoking, or torpid with sleep. Occasionally he sits down to play. As with barbarians generally, gambling in him is a passion. The normal game is our "heads and tails," the implement, a flat stone, a rough circle of tin, or the bottom of a broken pot. The more civilised have 200 HIS SPORTS AND PASTIMES. learned the "bas" of the coast, a kind of "tables" with counters and cups hollowed in a solid plank. Many of the Wanyamwezi have been compelled by this indulgence to sell themselves into slavery after playing through their property; they even stake their aged mothers against the equivalent of an old lady in these lands,--a cow or a pair of goats. As may be imagined, squabbles are perpetual, they are almost always, however, settled amongst fellow-villagers with bloodless weapons. Others, instead of gambling, seek some employment which, working the hands and leaving the rest of the body and the mind at ease, is ever a favourite with the Asiatic and the African; they whittle wood, pierce and wire their pipe sticks--an art in which all are adepts,--shave one another's heads, pluck out their beards, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and prepare and polish their weapons. "At about one p.m., the African, unless otherwise employed, returns to his hut to eat the most substantial and the last meal of the day, which has been cooked by his women. Eminently gregarious, however, he often prefers the Iwanza as a dining room, where his male children, relatives, and friends meet during the most important hour of the twentyfour. With the savage and the barbarian food is the all and all of life, food is his thought by day, food is his dream by night. The civil...
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781023493338 |
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| Publisher: | Anson Street Press |
| Publication date: | 03/29/2025 |
| Pages: | 396 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d) |
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