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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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. The method of arranging them is verycurious. At intervals of three hundredyards or so are built little huts of grass,each being the lodging-place of two soldiers.Though slightly built, there is some attemptat ornament about them, as each hut hasa pent roof, a veranda supported by lightpoles, and the side walls decorated with adiamond pattern of bamboo and a fetishshrub, which is supposed to repel lightning.A tuft of grass ornaments each end of thegables, and those huts that are situatednearest the palace are always the most dec-orated. In front of each hut the muskets belong-ing to the soldiers are fixed horizontally onforked sticks. They are ready loaded, andthe two are employed lest one of themshould miss fire. There are nearly ninehundred of these huts upon the line to Why-dah, and it is calculated that the time occu-pied in the fire ought to be about half anhour. When Captain Burton attended this cere-mony in 1863, Gelele had not been con-firmed at Allada, and in consequence was
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THE BASKET SACRIFICE. (See page 582.) (683) A ROYAL PALACE. 585 not, by royal etiquette, allowed to live in ahouse built of anything better than stakesand matting. Consequently, his officerswere obliged to follow his example, as itwould have been equivalent to treason hada subject presumed to live in a swishhouse when his monarch only dwelt inmatting. However, on this occasion at all eventsthe king tried to atone by barbarous fineryfor the wretched material of his palace.The Agwajai gate led into an oblong courtof matting, sprinkled with thick-leaved lit-tle fig trees of vivid green, and divided intotwo by the usual line of bamboos. At thebottom of the southern half was the royalpavilion, somewhat like a Shakmiyana inBengal, with an open wing on each side. The sloping roof of the central part,intended for the king, was of gold and lakedamask, under two broad strips of red andgreen satin; the wings, all silk and velvet,were horizontally banded with red, white-edged green, purple and ye

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