RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1867-1871]. Abstract of Baker, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, etc. CUL-DAR84.2.150. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871). The excised bottom portion of this sheet is in CUL-DAR85.A75
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Sir S. Baker The Nile Tributaries of Ab. 1867
p. 203 "As the stomach of the Arab prefers the raw meat & reeking liver taken hot from the animal, so does his ear prefer his equally coarse & discordant music to all others."
Baker, Samuel White. 1867. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London. Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 67, n57: "'The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia,' 1867, p. 203."
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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