slambuka

Updated: May 13, 2025

Some trace of the custom may be found in the Kafir's Slambuka or Schlabonka, for a description of which I must refer to the traveller Delegorgue. The Somal ignore the Kafir custom during lactation. The citizens have learned the Asiatic art of bargaining under a cloth.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa