Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-09
HUMANITY RUNNING WILD. These Samoa

At JSue dollars per Gn,suns.
HUMANITY RUNNING WILD. These Samoans
are the most lovely race Of savages with whom
it has been my fortune to meet; they have not
the fiat noses, thick lips, and frizzled hair Of
the negro type, but have distinctly European
features, and very pleasing expression. The
color of their skin is rich golden; their whole
costume is limited to light fringe of grass
round the waist, sud the women conhne them
selves in the way of tattooing to couple Of
thin blue lines across the lips. The men are
of great physical strength aud enormous statue;
they have queer disdain for us whites, and
say that while We employ brute force, e. g.,
Armstrong guns, etc., like a bull, they have
the reason and intellect or the cnlld, WoO runs
away from the bull.
They live a happy, graceless life; the earth
unasked produces her treasures IN abundance:
they have no need to dig when all is ready to
their hand. They bask in the sunshine, or
bathe in the cool waters of some retired cove,
and cannot understand why We should come to
thrust our business worries upon them, to buy
their land and grow cotton and sugar, and dis
fpure the romantic picturesqueness OF their Is
lands With convenient but intrusive roads; aud,
above all, why we should send missionaries,
who can't agree among themselves, and who
attempt to introduce all-concealing garments,
of which the want was before unknown. 1t
isn't half as pretty dress as the garlands of
fresh flowers with which they love to adorn
themselves in their artless and primitive SIM
plicity.
They are not moral, according to our ideas
far from it, but they have strong sense OF the
aesthetic and chastity does not rank as virtue
among them, where the reverse ls no sln. They
are very cleaver at hammeriDg out shIings into
rude silver rings between couple of stones, aud
thew also bring for sale little tortoise. shell orna-
ments, iulaid with silver Their coiffure light
have come from Paris or London, for when
was there bright red hair sin vogue with both
sexes. They plaster their heads over with lime
for few days, which destroys the original color
of the hair, aud produces a loud saffron tinge.
When man becomes engaged, the fair hancee
often clips her flowing locks, and brings them
to her Adonts, who paits them IN elaborately
with his own, producing most elaborate head
dress.
The disgusting way in which they prepare
kava, an intoxicating drink, by chewing, has
often been described, and do not care to re-
peat it. Strangely enough, the SamoaDs arc
lust one day behind all the rest of the world.
Their Sunday should be the same day as iD New
Zealand and Australia, but as their missionaries
came from the East to them, and forgot to miss
out a day 10 their reckoning, they have perpetu-
ated the mistake. 1t was Monday on board the
Nevada when we touched at Pango.p paugo, but
with them it was still the Sabbath, and in con-
sequence we were unable to trade to any
laree extent.-The Wonderland Of the Anti
podes.
ABYss1NIAN DELICAsIEs. "A common dish,
called dillikh, is meat boiled with butter
ground capsicum pods, onions, ginger, pepper,
etc. This forms compound too hot for most
European throats, but which is, nevertheless,
devoured with great relish and 10 great guam
titles by the Abyssiniaps. Clotted milk is an
other favorite dish. Psrtridges, guinea fowl
aud other game are also dressed in similar
manner, while the flesh of the sheep and goats
Is boiled. Horny is another popular dainty.
1t consists of the paunch and liver of quadru-
peds, minced and mixed with little of the un-
digested food from the entrails, the whole be-.
ing seasoned with red pepper, salt and few
drops of gall.
Some prefer sauce made from COW entrails
boiled with butter, mixed with horny and but
ter-this piquant relish being generally eaten
with raw beef Chickkiner is dish seldom
seen elsewhere than at the tai bles of the. upper
classes. The tenderest portion OF COW IS
chopped In raw state, then mixed with black
pepper and saturated with the .ubrlcatlDg sub
stance (synovia) which runs from the joints OF
the knees and other limbs during the outing
up process. 10 cooking, the Abyssinians are
very eleanly, fowls and fish being washed IN q
dozen waters at least before they are committed
to the pot. They will eat no animal with in
cisor teeth in the upper Jaw or which has not
coven feet.
Hence the elephant accounted such dainty
by all the African people Fortunate enough to
possess it, is not eaten by the people under
consideration The most extraordinary as we'll
as the most celebrated of all Abysslnian dishes
is raw meat freshly cut from the OK. The ami
NAL is led to the door, and the meat skifully
sliced off and handed to the guests who cram
themselves with the reeking flesh. streaming
with blood; or rather the lady of the house per-
forms this Office, forcing the food, properly sea-
soued, into the guests mouths with her own
hands 10 do otherwise, and to eat lightly,
would be accounted gross breaches of etiquette
by both host aud guests.
MEDICAL KNowLEDGE.-It is fact, aud a
gratifying one, that the acquisition of medical
knowledge receives larger attention at this day
than ever before. Know thyselt'' IS, 10 the
physical sense, becoming general desire, aud
though all may not attain in that regard to
true scientific knowledge, yet they may learn to
act nationally for the preservation aud restora-
ton of health Meantime they will prize the
promotion of the highest science in the profes-
sion of those who are to care for the 'ills which
flesh is heir to" 1t would seem then that
medical science should be among the most
prominent of the branches of knowledge for the
promotion of which the community would wish
to furnish endowments The New York Times
we'll says that of all the departments of ,physl-
meals to everybody personal interest. No ma q
is 80 healthy that he may not be sick, or SO
strong as to be- entirely secure from broken
bones and no man supposes himselfto be so.
And yet of all the vast amounts of money that
have within the past few years been devoted IN
onr country to the Dromotion of useful kuowl-