PEACE MARROWBONE
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES. The leader of the Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition has been telling the Royal Geographical Society of an interesting ceremony he witnessed in the north of Kenya. . The leaders- of two tribes, the Turkana and the Merille, had been persuaded by the British and Abyssinian authorities to cease their fighting. The leaders squatted in a row and a white sheep and a white bull, supplied by the aggressors in the recent fighting, were killed. Then parts of the sheep .were placed on the Turkana by the elders of the Merille, and, the front leg of the bull having been broken, the marrow from each half was eaten by the chief elder of each tribe. When these rather gruesome ceremonies had been completed all who were present at the conference sat down and feasted on the two beasts. Abyssinia’s boundary with Kenya continues eastward to march with that of Italian Somaliland, where all the trouble exists to-day.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)
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