XL. 

 THROUGH THE ENCHANTED FOREST. 



WE delayed at V.'s boma three days, wait- 

 ing for C. to turn up. He maintained 

 a little force of Wakamba, as the Masai would 

 not take service. The Wakamba are a hunting 

 tribe, using both the spear and the poisoned 

 arrow to kill their game. Their bows are short 

 and powerful, and the arrows exceedingly well 

 fashioned. The poison is made from the wood 

 of a certain fat tree, with fruit like gigantic 

 bologna sausages. It is cut fine, boiled, and the 

 product evaporated away until only a black 

 sticky substance remains. Into this the point 

 of the arrow is dipped ; and the head is then 

 protected until required by a narrow strip of 

 buckskin wound around and around it. I 

 have never witnessed the effects of this poison ; 

 but V. told me he had seen an eland die in 

 twenty-two minutes from so slight a wound in 



