SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



Chassahucca, as he is called, is a perfect type of the 

 superstitious negro. Every morning, before starting, 

 he consults the stones, who tell him whether we 

 shall kill any game. Round his neck hangs a collar 

 to which are attached a dozen horns of small antelopes. 

 This is his great charm. He has, in each horn, a 

 special remedy which serves to protect him from the 

 lions, the crocodiles, the snakes, the elephants, from 

 bad luck, from all diseases, and from all possible 

 accidents. 



Directly I have killed an animal, he throws himself 

 upon it, and extracts a small portion of the retina, 

 which he puts in a horn ; a sovereign " medicine," 

 he explains to me, to kill every other beast of the same 

 family. His joy is complete, if, having no need of the 

 specimen, I permit him to cut from the forehead a 

 small triangle of skin, which he threads on a string. 

 He endeavours to persuade me to attach all this 

 apparatus to the muzzle of my rifle, and, on my 

 energetic refusal, decides to carry it himself. 



This change was not fortunate, for I killed neither 

 an elephant nor a buffalo ; I was compelled to content 

 myself with specimens of antelopes already known 

 to me, and to a new species of swine known as the 

 wild pig. While the wart-hog lives in open country 

 far away from villages, the wild pig retires to the most 

 dense thickets, and levies heavy toll on the crops of 

 the natives. Although its relative burrows, this 

 species simply makes a lair. This animal is of the 



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