BIG GAME SHOOTING UNDER A BED 



and asked her if she had not a brush and comb ; the 

 girl replied that she had not. But nothing daunted, 

 presently her mistress missing her, she hunted her 

 up and found her doing her hair in her lady's bed- 

 room, using her glass and brush and comb ! 



To return to more primitive people, we had 

 some bows and poisoned arrows given us which 

 had been taken from the Nandi during the small 

 expedition. An officer told me that the natives 

 brew the poison out of herbs ; it is so strong that if 

 splashed in the eye, the sight is lost. When they 

 are making it, to try its strength, they make a 

 cut in one of their legs, and let the blood trickle 

 down to the ankle, then they carefully wipe away 

 the blood just near the cut and touch the end of 

 the stream with the poison. If the line of blood 

 immediately turns black all the way up, it is strong 

 enough for deadly use, but if not they add more 

 herbs. Happily for their enemies it is only when 

 the poison is freshly made that it is so deadly — then 

 a man dies promptly and in agony ; but when old it 

 loses much of its efficacy. Before the Nandi ex- 

 pedition our officers were taught how to inject 

 strychnine with a hypodermic syringe, with which 

 they were supplied, to use as an antidote for 

 the poison, but some of them remarked that they 

 had reason to fear their friends more than their 

 enemies, if, being struck by an arrow, every officer 



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