xylobian

Updated: September 12, 2025

The men assemble in the club round the Nampolo-fire, where they chat and smoke, drink and doze; those who are Agriophagi or Xylobian AEthiopians, briefly called hunters, spend their days much like the race which Byron declared "Merely born To hunt and vote, and raise the price of corn."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1