“A lion roars in the night and does not jump over a fence, but a wobo jumps over it in broad daylight, kills many negroes in the very heart of the village, and then steals one and eats him. Neither a spear nor a bow is any protection against a wobo, for a wobo can’t be killed.”
“Nonsense,” said Stasch; “look at this one; isn’t it quite dead?”
“White man can kill a wobo, but not black man!” answered Kali.
At last they took a rope and tied the enormous cat to the horse, and the latter dragged it toward the camp.
But Stasch was unable to keep the skin, because King, who apparently guessed that the wobo had attempted to steal his little mistress, flew into such a rage that even Stasch was unable to pacify him. Grasping the slain beast with his trunk, he threw it twice into the air, then he began to beat it against a tree, and at last stamped it under his feet until it was a pulpy, formless mass. Stasch was only able to save its teeth, which with some other parts of its head he had laid down in the path of a swarm of ants, and an hour later they had cleaned up the bones so thoroughly that there was not a sign of flesh or of blood to be seen.
| [30] | Terpsichore viridis. |
| [31] | Laniarius erythrogaster. |
| [32] | Quelia Æthiopica. |
| [33] | Brojera Anthelmitica is a beautiful plant, the seeds of which are a valuable remedy for tapeworm. It is mostly found in Southern Abyssinia. |