Note 425 — VII
Philip Askell Benton translation
The use of poisoned arrows is very widespread. Besides the Fulani and most of the pagan hill-tribes, the travelling Hausas also use them as a means of defence. Nachtigal found them even in Southern Kanem (ii. 260), and Foureau in Zinder (D’Alger au Congo, p. 561). It is especially as a protection against them that the cotton-wadded armour is intended. For the terrible effects of the arrow poison cf. Denham, i. 182 ff. [Cf. article on arrow-poison in Journal of the African Society for October, 1905, by L. W. La Chard.]