IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



camp we could still hear Andekko barking and the 

 cries of Ndova. 



We soon came to a koola tree and saw many nuts 

 on the ground. We thought we would get a meal 

 before the boars did, so we broke open many nuts 

 and ate them. Afterwards we hid near the trees. We 

 waited for a long time before any boars made their ap- 

 pearance. At last we heard their grunts, and soon after 

 they were busy eating the koola nuts before us. We 

 picked out two of them, fired, and killed them both. 

 They were fat, as Rogala had said they would be. We 

 could not carry all the meat with us, so it was agreed 

 that Rogala, Shinshooko, and Alapai should return 

 the next day to fetch what we could not take. On re- 

 turning to camp, we built another platform for smoking 

 the boar's-meat. 



" Now," said I to Rogala, " we have plenty of meat, 

 so we can go and hunt the ^ men of the woods.' " 



It was a curious coincidence that my hunters on 

 their return from fetching the boar's-meat next day 

 brought news of the " men of the woods." They 

 said : " Oguizi, to-day we saw a place where the 

 nshiego-mbouves have been. They have come to 

 feed on a peculiar fruit that is just getting ripe, and 

 I am sure they will remain in the neighborhood where 

 we saw their tracks for a time. Let us go there." 



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