I remember [says the African traveler Junker] how some A-Barmbo were disgusted at the smell of some genuine old Edam (Dutch) cheese, of which I had eaten a few scraps, and gave out that the white people eat "the foulest muck." Many smells affect them differently from us, and they turn with loathing from eau de cologne, for instance, and from scented soap.¹

The American Indians had no milk-giving animals and have never borrowed the milk habit from the whites. "It is with the greatest difficulty," says Wissler, "that our reservation Indians can be led to care for milk cows."

¹Junker, W.J.n/an/an/an/a, , 3: 101.