|
Volume 2 56 |
 |
A–Z |  |
 |
 |
|
KRU HUNTER OUT AFTER BIG GAME |
CHILD SHEPHERDESSES OF THE BISHARIN TRIBE |
|
| Elephants, leopards, and buffaloes are the quarry for which he chiefly uses his gun. Other beasts he kills in pitfalls or with weighted harpoons poised above their path to water, and small game for his larder he traps | Theirs is a restless existence, but the peregrination of centuries is in their blood and they are hardened to a nomadic life. Where their foot rests is their home. They are Mahomedans, but are known to preserve some non-Islamic religious practices. They still regard the serpent and partridge as sacred, and this obviously points to the fact that animal-worship existed among them in an earlier stage of civilization |