. From the Niger to the Nile . me standing still and others lyingdown ; and of all ages, ranging from fresh weaned calves tobucks with heavy horns. They were much worried by theflies and their big ears and long tails were continually on themove. Sometimes one would start and run fifty yards or so,driven by the sudden pain of a bite. On one occasion hesaw two hartebeest feeding in the open in the middle of aherd of kob, through which he successfully crawled on handsand knees without starting them, and dropped one of thehartebeest at 200 yards as they were moving off. The satis-faction at this k
. From the Niger to the Nile . me standing still and others lyingdown ; and of all ages, ranging from fresh weaned calves tobucks with heavy horns. They were much worried by theflies and their big ears and long tails were continually on themove. Sometimes one would start and run fifty yards or so,driven by the sudden pain of a bite. On one occasion hesaw two hartebeest feeding in the open in the middle of aherd of kob, through which he successfully crawled on handsand knees without starting them, and dropped one of thehartebeest at 200 yards as they were moving off. The satis-faction at this kill was somewhat spoiled, however, by hisgun-boys breaking the stock of his twelve-bore gun, usingit to club the wounded animal, which the boy alleged had OUR JOURNEY UP THE NIGER AND BENUE 43 attacked him. That evening he returned to liis camp verytired, and ate his dinner under difficulties owing to the cloudsof moths and insects which swarmed round his lamp, darken-ing the flame. Presently an old man crept up and sitting on. KING OF LAFAN OISSEEI the ground just within the ring of light, brought out fromunder his bernouse a little banjo, made of a gourd and stickwith two strings, which he thrummed, producing notes of mostsweet and musical tone. He was a wandering minstrel and hadlived by the music of this same instrument for twenty Gisseri Gosling took an interesting photo of a nativedoctor cupping a patient for blood-letting. He describesthe process as follows. The skin was wetted and theends (5 in. long) of five cow-horns with holes bored intheir ends were applied. The doctor then sucked the endsand plugged the holes quickly with some cotton which he had 44 FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE in his mouth. Then, after a short while, when the poreshad been opened, the horns were removed and incisions madewith a small knife. The horns were then stuck on againand sucked as before. After a little they were taken offand found to contain a lot of thick blood that had been drawn
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