Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - (The arrows to shoot game are poisoned). The poison used is an alkaloid obtained from a plant or tree of the genus Strophanthus. - The poison is fatal to all animals, even elephants and rhinoceros succumbing to it if the arrow can be driven through their thick hide.
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania The Kangeju will eat everything. They are gruesome scavengers, and I have known them to gorge themselves, with evident relish and no apparent ill reults, upon the carcass of a rhinoceros which was polluting the atmosphere for half a mile. (p.121)
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania The Kangeju will eat everything. They are gruesome scavengers, and I have known them to gorge themselves, with evident relish and no apparent ill reults, upon the carcass of a rhinoceros which was polluting the atmosphere for half a mile. (p.121)
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Left the Kangeju to consume the carcases of two rhinoceroses
Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - The string of the bow [weapon] is made of a sinew, usually from the back muscle of the rhinoceros, which, when properly treated, makes a cord of extraordinary strength.
