WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



the flesh about the wound is cut out, and the rest fur- 

 nishes food for the hunter and his friends and family. 



The natives are very careful in handling their poisoned 

 and barbed arrows, which are carried in a quiver. 



The poison is procured from a tree, Acocanthera 

 ahyssinica, and the Wakamba are said to prepare the 

 strongest kind and best quality. The sticky, black 

 extract is smeared on the arrow-head. A small piece 

 of thin leather is fitted on the arrow-head and not re- 

 moved until the arrow is used. I once procured some 

 poison from a Ndorobbo, whom I found near two giraffes 

 killed by his arrows, and I tried its power on a hen and 

 a white vulture; the first died in seven minutes, the 

 latter in ten. 



Every Wandorobbo hunter marks his arrows and 

 spears, so that there can be no disputing his ownership 

 of missile and prey. 



All kinds of animals are also caught by the natives 

 in skilfully- dug-out and well-concealed pits — pits meant 

 for large beasts, like the elephant and rhinoceros, and 

 dug deep in front and in the rear, so that the trapped 

 animal is, as it were, suspended, its body resting on the 

 solid middle of the pit, its fore and hind legs hanging 

 down without support. In this position the big cap- 

 tive is utterly helpless and easily killed. The pits are 

 so cleverly covered with branches and dry grass that 

 even the wary elephant is caught in them. In the moist 

 mountain forests of the Kilimanjaro and in Niandi, near 



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