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COURTSHIP DANCE OF GIRLS AND MEN OF THE WESTERN GALLAS
| Civilized Western Gallas change into a wooing dance the fierce love-rite of the savage Eastern Gallas. Leaping and panting, the men stretch their hands to seize the girls, who invite and reject them. In the wild dance of the savage Gallas the men work themselves up into real passion |
OPEN-AIR INSTRUCTION IN THE OLD AND NEWLY VICTORIOUS FAITH
| A priest of Addis Abbaba is teaching a group of children to read the Bible. This is the height of education in the backward land with little literature, and only the well-to-do can afford their children time for learning. Yet it was such teachers as these that saved Abyssinia from turning Moslem during the war, when the young emperor fell under Moslem sway and abandoned the Coptic Church |