English Translation

They don't know what to save for the next day. Once I give them a handful of salt that is especially sought after, they feed this as it is on the spot, they have enough of it, then they throw away the rest instead of picking it up for later. If they find in one of their cases an already dead animal, which is already dead for several days and which one already smells from a distance, it does not prevent it from eating up also such an animal. Even the own dead are not buried, but equally eaten up, although they do not like to let me know. But the different skulls, which lie around in the vicinity of their camp, give sufficient testimony that they taste human flesh just as good as wild meat. They also make no difference between man and animal on their hunts, everything is prey and the main thing is that they can kill them with their small poison arrows. The danger to a human being is often lower than to an elephant or buffalo. Wild, which they kill by poison pipe, they always roast at the fire, which makes the poisoned meat apparently edible. Or are they immune to their own poisons? With moral concerns, these jungle people naturally do not suffer to Europãer with pyg-. They are only particularly shy of the white man, as they may see in him a male woman and hers a being that may be related to spirits or demons. Daughter (size equal) On their wanderings they kill the game at quite considerable distances with extraordinary certainty, mostly they use arrows with hardwood yoghurts in the air or are trampled, which does not prevent the others from pointed. Admirable on the hunt is their contempt for life. I was told by the English officials that the Wambuti would succumb to the attacks of their enemies. Since the government is supposed to sneak up through its middle elephants and with a sharp, gritty bush knife the men in most cases receive the worthless tusks for the pygmies, so tendons of the hind leg beat through it, or they hide at the change of the let them grant the dwarves, nevertheless they help to a good source of income. Animals and bump their long, sharp lances into his stomach as they pass. Of course, in such attacks on elephants, one or the other I have often had to admire the courage of these dwarves during my wanderings with Akwebadu, but whether the descriptions of the officials in Fort-Portal are based on facts, I want to leave it to be put aside. I myself have never had the opportunity to observe that the Pygmies had attacked elephants in the manner described above, and I abstain from any comment, on the contrary, I would rather doubt such information. I am well aware that the Wambuti sit on trees whose strong branch spread closely over fresh changes of large animals such as buffaloes and elephants. There they lurk until an animal passes under their seat. To this they push from above a safe height a heavy spear into the neck. One day Akwebadu alerts me to another danger. Through a liana rope an exceptionally heavy wooden block is pulled up over a change. In this wooden block a thick, sharply pointed iron rod is fastened with a re-hook. The rope runs at the other end about a hand-width over the ground, in such a way that when a large animal comes on the path delong, it remains with the foot on the liana rope. To go further, it will try to tear it through or unwittingly carry it along. But this triggers the device and the massive wooden block with the iron rod in it hits the animal in the neck or in the back and hurts it so hard that it can easily be captured. One should now assume that these jungle gnomes are quite dangerous natives. But after the few weeks that I am already among them, I know that they are not directly evil, they act much more without any consideration. In no case do they forge war or revenge plans against other people or somehow proceed cleverly. On the contrary, by Leopordenman in disguise and with claw the other Negro tribes in the Congo area they are suppressed and from- 36 37