Plateau, used it in their war 

 with the Government a few 

 years ago and several soldiers 

 in the King's African Rifles 

 were struck by poisoned ar- 

 rows. When men were 

 wounded, the doctors told 

 me, the poison seemed to 

 affect the heart but yielded 

 to arsenic and the wounded 

 did not die. From what I 

 have seen, one struck by poi- 

 soned arrows such as the 

 Cheringani make — if the poi- 

 son be freshly brewed — can- 

 not fail to die almost in- 

 stantly. 



The unhunted region of the 

 Cheringani range was chosen 

 for the work of the expedition 

 at the advice of Mr. Woos- 

 man, Chief Game Ranger of 

 British East Africa, whose 

 great ability and experience 

 gives his judgment value. 

 The success of the expedition 

 must be largely credited to 

 the work of the trackers 



chosen from the wildmen of the Cheringani Dorobo. They had had 

 experience hunting 

 with white men 

 previously but 



nevertheless gave 

 us their steady co- 

 operation. I have 

 had in past years 

 considerable expe- 

 rience of trackers 

 and tracking but 

 never before in Af- 

 rica have I seen 

 work done com- 

 parable with that 

 of the trackers of „., . . . . ,„.»»• r *. mw ,, a 



Silver-haired pig of the African forest. This is a 

 the Cheringani. rarely captured and more rarely photographed 



Capturing a viverrine cat alive 



little 



species 

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