Then Obindji … tasted of every dish to show us that no food was poisoned, for such is the custom of the country. Another dish was the boiled smoked foot of an elephant, which had been specially cooked for me, this being considered by many the best piece.
The people all round us were eating. The first mouthful I put into my mouth caused cheer after cheer to go up. The ntanga is eating of the elephant! The renowned explorer Dr. Livingstone, I presume? The cutting up of an elephant is quite a unique spectacle. The men stand round the animal in dead silence, while the chief of the traveling party declares that, according to ancient law, the head and right hind-leg belong to him who…inflicted the first wound; the left leg to him who delivered the second, or first touched the animal after it fell.
The meat around the eye to the English, or chief of the travelers…. Now the tribesmen rushed toward the carcass like frantic Wal-Mart shoppers at a Black Friday sale, but instead of trying to snag consumer electronics and scented candles, they would grab handfuls of gushing offal and rib bones the size of canoe paddles. Their excitement becomes momentarily more and more intense, and reaches the culminating point when, as denoted by a roar of gas, the huge mass is laid fairly open.
Some jump inside, and roll about there in their eagerness to seize the precious fat, while others run off, screaming, with pieces of the bloody meat, throw it on the grass, and run back for more: all keep talking and shouting at the utmost pitch of their voices. We had the foot thus cooked for breakfast next morning, and found it delicious. It is a whitish mass, slightly gelatinous, and sweet, like marrow. The quantities of meat our men devour is quite astounding. They boil as much as their pots will hold, and eat till it becomes physically impossible for them to stow away any more.
An uproarious dance follows, accompanied with stentorian song; and as soon as they have shaken their first course down, and washed off the sweat and dust of the after performance, they go to work to roast more: a short snatch of sleep succeeds, and they are up and at it again; all night long it is boil and eat, roast and devour, with a few brief interludes of sleep. For the makers out there, Sir Samuel Baker, a Victorian naturalist, gives instructions on how to build an elephant oven in his adventure-log:.
This protein-charged pink milk is called "beastings. Pink or white Tastes sweet and rich, with a strong fragrance Has more fat, protein, calcium and iron than cow milk Used to make butter tea, milk wine and chhurpi Yak butter is used as lamp fuel, to polish fur coats, and as a medium for traditional Tibetan sculpture.
White Tastes salty and sweet Used to make butter and cheese, but neither are easily done. More often consumed as plain milk or fermented into a fizzy, sour chai or shubat. Sometimes it is blended into high-end chocolate. Has more vitamin C than cow milk Has less fat, protein and lactose than cow milk Bonus milk: Reindeer are the only source of milk in northern Scandinavia because no other dairy animals can survive there Kumis, or fermented horse milk, has been popular for centuries among the people of the Central Asian steppes.
Herodotus wrote about the production of kumis in the fifth centruy B. OK Learn More. Well, for hooded seal pups, that's nothing. And after just three to five days guzzling the stuff, seal pups double their body weight. But seals aren't the only animals with extreme milk. If hooded seals drink the fattiest milk, then tammar wallabies prefer their milk loaded with sugar.
Joeys are born prematurely and finish developing outside the womb. And since sugars are easier to digest than fat, their milk is easier on their developing digestive systems. Meanwhile, the milk also contains an antibiotic more powerful than penicillin, which protects the young joeys from germs since they're born without a fully functioning immune system.
Meanwhile, aardvark milk doesn't contain much sugar, but it makes up for it with extreme levels of protein. But while aardvarks have some pretty potent milk, nine-banded armadillos make some special stuff of their own. By the time the pups are a month old, they're drinking milk that contains 10 times as much calcium as cow's milk.
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