Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 119
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 weighted spear falls, drivesthe barb deep… … ELEPHANTS APlROACHtNG A SPEAR-TRAP. The natives ordinary list of food is very lim-ited, the staple being boiled manioc root and fish.Manioc is a vegetable resembling the potato insubstance, but coarse and stringy. The Africanprepares it by soaking it in water for five days,during which it ferments,…
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