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direction and then stood still. Tha savage by my 

 side had an arrow fitted, and let fly before one could 

 say Jack Kobinson. It was not a good shot, it struck 

 the beast in the flank and away it and its companions 

 fled. I was curious to see what effect the poison 

 would have and how soon, so I timed it. 



The wounded animal separated from the rest ; it 

 had hardly gone a couple of hundred yards when it 

 commenced, not exactly to stagger but to run in zig- 

 zags and presently rolled over and with a quiver or 

 two was dead. All within five minutes ! The man 

 went up to it, flayed it, cut a piece of meat all round 

 the arrow-head, which he threw away, then quartered 

 the game. It seems extraordinary to me that such a 

 virulent poison does not affect the whole of the flesh. 

 But it does not ; with the exception of the part 

 incised the rest is perfectly good and fit for human 

 food. 



It was now broad day, and my porters had soon 

 dragged out the two antelope. As I intended to 

 halt where we were I allowed them to take the whole 

 of the meat, and odd to say nothing was said about 

 its not having been hal-laled. It is true they cut 

 the throats, but then the beasts had been dead fully 

 ten minutes but of course I made no allusion to it. 

 The guide hung his meat in the shade in long strips, 

 and told my men to hang it out with theirs in the 

 sun at midday. I had told him I would have no 

 more shooting by night and that he must accompany 

 me in search of game by day in the neighbouring 

 forest. We took some food with us and set out. The 

 man made a long detour until we were favourably 

 placed for the wind, and then entered the forest, 



