Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 13:04
HUNGER compels them to feed on everything edible. Ixias,
wild garlic, mysembryanthemums, the core of aloes, gum of
acacias, and several other plants and berries, some of which are
extremely unwholesome, constitute their fruits of the field ; while
almost every kind of living creature is eagerly devoured,
lizards, locusts, and grasshoppers not excepted. The poisonous,
as well as innoxious serpents they roast and eat. They cut off
the head of the former, which they dissect, and carefully extract
the bags, or reservoirs of poison, which communicate with the
fangs of the upper jaw. They mingle it with the milky juice of
the euphorbia, or with that of a poisonous bulb. After simmering
for some time on a slow fire, it acquires the consistency of wax,
with which they cover the points of their arrows." Moffafs
Africa, page 47.
wild garlic, mysembryanthemums, the core of aloes, gum of
acacias, and several other plants and berries, some of which are
extremely unwholesome, constitute their fruits of the field ; while
almost every kind of living creature is eagerly devoured,
lizards, locusts, and grasshoppers not excepted. The poisonous,
as well as innoxious serpents they roast and eat. They cut off
the head of the former, which they dissect, and carefully extract
the bags, or reservoirs of poison, which communicate with the
fangs of the upper jaw. They mingle it with the milky juice of
the euphorbia, or with that of a poisonous bulb. After simmering
for some time on a slow fire, it acquires the consistency of wax,
with which they cover the points of their arrows." Moffafs
Africa, page 47.