Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 118
me are in even greater danger fromthe deadly likongo or ,spear-trap. A mas-sive barbed spear-head is let into a heavy beamof wood, and this weapon is suspended thirty orforty feet from the ground over some well-wornanimal trail. Tied between two trees, its deadlyblade pointing directly to the… … AN AFRICAN MONKEV-THAP. frail string and releases the ponderous weapon,which falls crashing into the poor brutes back.As a rule an animal wounded in this way isunable to move far, as the distance through Vol. XVII.—79-So. 650 SIX YEARS IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. [June, which the heavily…
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