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are cunningly covered and well placed, they often fulfil 

 their aim. These traps do more than anything else to 

 drive away all manner of game, especially elephants. 



The Wandorobo, especially the Wakamba, shoot the 

 elephants with poisoned arrows. The wounded beasts 

 have often to be followed for days. The animals are 

 very seldom lost, as the natives are very clever at finding 

 the dead bodies, guided by the vultures and marabous. 

 Some Wandorobo races are wont to use poisoned spears, 

 though only poisoned arrows are used in the neighbour- 

 hood ot the Kilimanjaro. Twice whilst following herds 

 which had just been chased by the Wakamba I have 

 found broken arrow-shafts. 



There can be no doubt that the African elephant can 

 be tamed in the same way as his Indian cousin. Still, 

 I agree with English authorities, that in Equatorial 

 Africa such tamed elephants would be useless, as in the 

 dry season there are no visible means of sustenance on 

 the plains. In any case, the conditions are so totally 

 different in the two countries that it is impossible to draw 

 any conclusion from what is done in India as to the em- 

 ployment of the elephant in West Africa. The taming, 

 in the hands of expert natives from India, ought to 

 present no insuperable difficulties, although our keepers 

 have observed that the Indian elephant is easier to handle 

 than the African. Experiments of this kind, however, 

 would need a great deal of capital, and would have to be 

 undertaken speedily, in view of the rapid disappearance 

 of the elephant. 



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