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Show DEADLY WEAPON OF SAVAGES African Tribes Use Poisoned Arrows Which Inflict Death That Is Instantaneous. The most effective weapon of the-Masai the-Masai and Andorobo is the arrow which they poison with the Accan-Uiera Accan-Uiera schlmperl, a small tree, according accord-ing to a National Geographic society bulletin. They boll the leaves and branches until the mixture becomes thick ii ml pitch-like In appearance, and place It on sheets of bark which they hide high on the b.anches of trees away from children, until it Is needed. When an animal Is she, with an arrow dipped In the poison. It dies almost immediately. im-mediately. The natives cut out the flesh around the wound as soon as possible pos-sible and throw It away. The remainder remain-der Is eaten an the blood Is drunk. This love of blood as nn article of food, ic common among many African tribes, several of them going so far as to bleed their cattle and drink the blood hot or mix it with their porridge. |