THE NDOROBO 
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CH. XIl] 
lion in its turn killed two of their hunters. In fact, 
they were living just as palaeolithic man lived in Europe 
ages ago. 
Their arms were bows and arrows, the arrows being 
carried in skin quivers, and the bows, which were strung 
with zebra gut, being swathed in strips of hide. When 
resting they often stood on one leg, like storks. Their 
eyesight was marvellous, and they were extremely skilful 
alike in tracking and in seeing game. They threaded 
their way through the forest noiselessly and at speed, 
and were extraordinary climbers. They were continually 
climbing trees to get at the hyrax, and once when a big 
black and white colobus monkey which I had shot 
lodged in the top of a giant cedar one of them ascended 
and brought it down with matter-of-course indifference. 
He cut down a sapling, twenty-five feet long, with the 
stub of a stout branch left on as a hook, and for a rope 
used a section of vine which he broke and twisted into 
flexibility. Then, festooned with all his belongings, he 
made the ascent. There was a tall olive, sixty or eighty 
feet high, close to the cedar, and up this he went. 
From its topmost branches, where only a monkey or a 
’Ndorobo could have felt at home, he reached his sapling 
over to the lowest limb of the giant cedar, and hooked 
it on ; and then crawled across on this dizzy bridge. 
Up he went, got the monkey, recrossed the bridge, and 
climbed down again, quite unconcerned. 
The big black and white monkeys ate nothing but 
leaves, and usually trusted for safety to ascending into 
the very tops of the tallest cedars. Occasionally they 
would come in a flying leap down to the ground, or to 
a neighbouring tree ; when on the ground they merely 
dashed toward another tree, being less agile than the 
ordinary monkeys, whether in the tree-tops or on solid 
