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Thinking black; 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central ...

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470 THINKING BLACK<br />

hear at <strong>the</strong> hippo banquet has one mean<strong>in</strong>g only<br />

Nitrogen ! Why<br />

is it that <strong>the</strong> African alone has special-<br />

ised here and co<strong>in</strong>ed a word for " meat-hunger " (Kashia) ?<br />

Why a special substantive if not that <strong>the</strong>re is a specially<br />

substantial crav<strong>in</strong>g beh<strong>in</strong>d it ? He ravens on that meat,<br />

his very blood and bone cry<strong>in</strong>g out like chemists for <strong>the</strong><br />

needed nitrogen. Red raw flesh covered with blood is <strong>the</strong><br />

th<strong>in</strong>g beloved <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> negro—torn <strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> animal just after<br />

it has been shot, muscles still quiver<strong>in</strong>g.

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