Note 70 — Chapter XV

Go (quiver), hen (hold), to (one that does). The bow is called Dápo, and the arrow Gá. 2 It is not straight nor a segment of a circle, but partly both, the lower end being much less bulged than the upper horn, which, to protect the strain, is armed with iron rings. The Dahomans ignore the crossbow, nor have they, like the Nagos and Makhis, an iron guard for the right-hand fingers, or a leather on the left wrist. The only efficient poison comes from the Makhi country. Mr. Duncan (vol. ii. chap. 8) found poison in the Dassa mountains north of Dahome, and the arrow heads of superior manufacture.