PYGMIES’ DEADLY POISON

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1924, Page 4

PYGMIES’ DEADLY POISON

NO AN i M A!. SAKE FROM ATT.H K. I ONDON. -lime 11. IV Cuthh'-rt ( inisty’s "Big Game and I’yc.lnit's" is a record el a natural isi'- ,| oosl ,f i! i' okapi, rarest ul ante Epos ether wild .roatun-e ... Ho. I -.air.,! Air:,-an • on I• 1.11 ,o ;he Belgian Got: l nil-ill. Gu a iii'-morahlo occasion l)i t hristv luiil a ri.'lit and loti at e!o|dimit and . kajii. IE- got iho olojiliant. missed the okapi. The latter. Ice think-, I-' the "nyi-t dillieull of all beasts lo eateii even a sight ot 111 ils dim mid far-olf soliiudes." I’rol.ald-.- in, animal is -<> s!,y. ~r so glni't-like in it- inov.'liieiits ibmtigli the loivsi. For the European to have any eluinee of stnee-s he must first MU-ure Ihe oeldideiiee of the little men to whom the forest belong-. Months have to be spent in praoti-iug fore-t .raft with tin- little trackers. Erom the el,'pliant downward t lie pygitiv 'lays all animals with bis jioisoiii'd arrow. The shall "I the arrow is k'mek'.'d out by the buslies as the slriekett animal !l"o- llin.ugb the lorOst . The arrow-bead will, it' j.oison is 101 lin tin- body, the beat of which soon melt-, the niloa-bul ter and allows the p ison to enter tin- Mood-stream. They are si rojianl Inis, an "exceedingly deadly heart |i,iison.” The extinction of Hie while rhinoceros a- a wild specie- i- "|ireity certain ill Hu- near lutuie." lie ihind tlie linn-s." and shooting him N

as "easy as hitting a haystack." The white rhinoceros is in, whiter in eolour than the commoner (black) species, hut Ini' preliahly received it' name from its habit ~l wallowing in l.mdboios, tin- mud ol w In, ii is yellow* isii-ieil.

"It is in. easy matter." Dr ( liristy sax's, "i,, I,ring ~n,--,d; to shoot a eliinv pauzee ill cold Mood. It i' 100 dislinetly like playing at murder." At the fir- 1 sign ~l danger iin- wary old male (chimpanzee) forsakes hi' family, and. coining down from, the trec-lop with a few aerolialie swings and ~ ,1 1 op. be makes off along the ground. lie uses his great arms to help himself along, to pn-li off from tie--- ill his baste, or tor swinging

creepers and branches nut (.1 the wa.. rat her than lor limiting with. Elide the'.- eondit ions hi, attitude is ill-

tiiielly human. The (lolimli Poetic of rim Kquatoria African forest- i- the "largest beoll in the world.” Ii has beautiful elm celate ami while markings. Takin . elf from i In- branches o

some tree, with a- much commotion a: a pig'-oii. the gn ai he.-lie gee- droning a hour in i!m l--.U:-t part ol the day several hundred lecL no in the air foi all the world !ik- an aeroplane ami making a \ cry similar m.i-e. In i!.- dim forest Lite* "l’apilio Amitnt’ehus." llie "higge-t hutterliy in Airiea.” is found, with its “wingspread el nine indies I rum lil> to tip. It made to ri-e suddenly, or if disturhe.l while sitting a hranch, it will soim-tim.-- -quirt vvater at the aggressor with considerable ter.e as ii with a -yringe.