OUR JOURNEY UP THE NIGER AND BENUE 37 



masked head from side to side in imitation of the hornbill 

 with masterly pantomime. By these means he got to within 

 twenty yards of his quarry, when he fired, striking the animal 



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 ALEXANDKR 



COL. CAPT. 



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MEETING THE AXGLO-GERMAN BOUNDARY COMMIS.SION 



in the shoulder. It sprang away a few yards, then spun 

 round and fell instantly killed by the deadly poison of the 

 arrow. 



Just before reaching Ibi, we met the British members 

 of the Anglo-German Boundary Commission under Colonel 

 Jackson, who entertained us most hospitably at luncheon 

 on a sand-bank, where we foregathered pleasantly, interested 

 in the account we were able to glean from them of the country 

 that lay before us, from which they had just come. We 



