36 SPORT, TRAVEL, AND ADVENTURE 



nearly a dozen plates, but with no good results ; snap- 

 shots were useless, and I could not get them still 

 enough for a time exposure. 



One day after leaving Mawambi we met another 

 little troop of Pygmies. They were not at all sur- 

 prised to see us ; they said that they knew of pur 

 coming, and had been told about us by their own 

 people. I was greatly surprised at this, and asked 

 to see the man who had spoken about us, and he 

 was, brought the very same little chief who had treated 

 me so kindly before. He was so amused when I told 

 him of my astonishment at finding him here, and he 

 laughed most heartily and seemed to thoroughly enjoy 

 the joke. I believe it was Dr. Moffat who once said 

 that whenever he found a native in Africa who could 

 laugh, he had hope for that man. A native who can 

 see a joke and enjoy a laugh is usually a man who 

 has not lost heart and become entirely absorbed in 

 the problem of life, as to how to procure for himself 

 a sustenance. And so this little Pygmy greatly enjoyed 

 the simple joke of having passed us in the forest 

 without our having seen him, and of being able to 

 tell us of all our experiences since he left us ; even 

 the places where we camped he knew, and the animals 

 we shot en route for food. Again the little man showed 

 his good feeling towards me by presenting me with 

 two bows and a quiver full of arrows, to some of 

 which the deadly poison was still adhering. The 

 arrows were of great variety, the simplest being merely 

 sharpened sticks of hard wood, and these I found 

 were the poisoned ones. Others were made with iron 

 heads of different shapes, from the simple leaf shape 

 to the six -barbed arrow ; one or two I saw had double 



