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Ordinarily, the Sultan rides outside the palace walls to cut the ram's throat.* The new Sultan prudently preferred the safety of a mosque inside the palace grounds. Carefully, he thrust his knife into the animal's throat, then stood back while the carcass was placed on a jeep and rushed off to the palace. The tradition is that if the sacrificial sheep arrives at the palace alive, the land will be blessed. A few minutes later came word from the palace: "The animal arrived still breathing...
...victory in more than a hundred watery battles." One story has it that a Swedish whaler captured Mocha in 1859. "He was old and worn out from his countless battles, and he was beyond struggling when the lance finally gouged into his lungs . . . When the Swedes got his carcass alongside, they found he was blind in his right eye and had 19 harpoon points corroding his leathery hide...
...bull's horns and tied the rope to the rear bumper. Back at the wheel, he towed the bull around the arena amidst an uproar of catcalls, hoots and laughter. Then he drove out. Three times that afternoon, Franklin drove into the ring and hauled away the carcass...
...pictures on view ranged from gloomy and disturbing scenes of death to bright and happy still-lifes. Cannabin, done in thickly applied tropical reds and blue-greens, showed flies feeding on the carcass of a dog. Minotaur set such modern forms as radar equipment and airplane parts in a desolate, post-Armageddon landscape. On the other hand, Still-Life with Pear was as cheerful and peaceful as a morning in spring, and Made in U.S.A. expressed the hustling vitality of a city waterfront...
Hibben thought the remains had been left by an ancient human hunter, who had dragged the beast's carcass into the cave. He christened him Sandia Man. He estimated that Sandia Man was of an even earlier generation than the 10,000-year-old Folsom Man, whose traces were first found in Folsom, N.Mex. in 1925-and, later, on a higher level of Sandia Cave. But other scientists treated the findings with skepticism. There was no proof, they said, that Folsom Man had any ancestors on the American continent...