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any unwounded 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 {Gazella granti). (From a Photograph by the Author.) 
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 occupatiqn seems to be to join in the everlasting hunt 
for honey. 
