42 SPORT, TRAVEL, AND ADVENTURE 



reckon on his fingers (in place of the more familiar 

 way with little bits of stick), buffalo (showing the 

 crushing his shoulder had received from one), antelope, 

 monkeys (but these not very often, because of the 

 loftiness of their leafy haunts), wild pig, and occasion- 

 ally elephant. When a herd passes through their dis- 

 trict they hover on its flanks, and as one of the great 

 beasts lifts his hind leg they discharge their poisoned 

 arrows into his foot, and after a few hours the poor 

 thing topples down, overpowered by the deadly poison." 



