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season, but individuals bunt at other times. Young people and 
children hunt rabbits, gazelles, &c., not far from home. Women 
catch guineafowl by driving them about, as they soon get tired and 
cannot fly far. Sometimes large companies of boys undertake a 
hunt for the old women. On their return they all walk together in 
regular order to the huts where the old women live, laden with the 
spoil, and for this good work they are always invited to dinner. 
Should the old women have too much meat brought to them, they 
make presents to their friends. 
All the wild uninhabited land surrounding a tribe belongs to the 
tribe as a whole, and may be hunted in by anyone. Individuals or 
parties may also hunt in the country which belongs to a neighbour- 
ing tribe, if that tribe is friendly. Should a man go alone to hunt 
in an enemy’s country, he will not be interfered with, if he behaves 
well ; but if he be insolent, the people will fight with him. 
The chiefs do not often take part in the hunt; possibly the 
people do not like them to be needlessly exposed ; and there is a 
tradition of a great chief having been killed in a hunting fray, and 
his body having been lost. 
Gazelles are hunted as follows : — Some of the dogs run in front 
of the animal to distract its attention, whilst two or three creep 
quietly up from behind, and seize it. The dogs ^are kept by indi- 
viduals, and not in large packs. 
All large animals are cut up when killed, and not carried away 
whole. There is much waste, as what cannot be easily taken away 
is left. Small game is carried home on the head^ or slung on a pole 
and carried by two men. 
The Madis are very skilful with bow and arrow, and can hit 
birds on the wing. l!lo tribute is paid in game. Water only is 
drunk while hunting. The meat is dried over a fire to preserve it. 
The people are not influenced to migrate by the habits of the 
animals they hunt ; good land is their great desire. 
Traps . — The various modes employed for entrapping animals are 
of interest. 
Hippopotami and rhinoceros are caught in pits. Deep holes are 
dug in the ground, into the bottom of which wooden stakes are driven 
with spikes projecting from the upper end, and then the holes are 
covered over with sticks and grass, strong enough to bear a man’s 
