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any unvvounded animal missed clean a small buck standing 

 still at only a few yards range. But there are some, no doubt, 

 who do kill game occasionally by these means (the Wakamba 

 certainly do), though I do not believe they are good shots 

 unless at very close quarters. One thing I have always 

 wondered at with regard to these people is that the children 

 do not seem to practise for amusement — as Kafir boys do the 



Mode of Protecting Game from Vultures. 



Grant's Gazelle (Gazelia ^i-anti). (From a Photograph by the .Vuthor.) 



use of the assegai by throwing pointed sticks at a pumpkin 

 rolled down a hill — nor do they ever shoot at birds. It is a 

 curious thing, too, that an Ndorobo would rather starve than 

 eat a bird : he looks on a guinea-fowl even with aversion, the 

 consequence being that the boys do not attempt to snare birds 

 as other young natives are so fond of doing ; indeed their only 

 idea of occupation .seems to be to join in the everlasting hunt 

 for honey. 



