Identifier: centuryillustratv40n1newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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AFRICAN GAME.—A HAWK-EYE SNAP-SHOT. The photograph of porters, carrying on theirheads loads of meat, was taken on the UseriPlain, to the east of Kilima-njaro, last July. Itdepicts a successful mornings hunt. The headsborne by the two central figures are those of abull and cow eland, and the other loads arethe hams and portions of their carcasses. photographs ever brought out of the DarkContinent is secured. It is quite evident that with an ordinaryphotographic apparatus, with tripod, compli-cated adjustment, darkening-cloth, and what-not, such a picture as this could never havebeen obtained. 20 A HAWK-EYE VIEW OF AFRICA.
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hongo! hongo! These bands of Masai warriors are the ter-ror of East Africa. One of the peculiar andtraditional beliefs of the El-moran is, that allcattle are for his particular use and benefit;and that for other Africans to own them isunpardonable presumption. Beside raisingvast numbers for their own consumption, theMasai therefore make raiding and cattle-lift-ing among the neighboring tribes the seriousbusiness of their lives. The Masai warriors are the Apaches of EastAfrica; brave, warlike, and terrible in the es-timation of other Africans. They live exclu-sively on a diet of beef and milk, permittingno other food to pass their lips. Their country is swarming with herds of game that are al-most as tame as their own half-wild cattle.Yet they never molest it, and would on noaccount taste its flesh. We used to joke withthem, and tell them we were as much El-moran(warrior) as themselves. This, however, theywould not admit; arguing that nobody couldbe an El-moran unless, like them, he di

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