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"A hunter who was traveling near the Victoria Nyanza came upon a colony of sokos" (probably chimpanzees)

Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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whileand enjoying its victims terror. The soko will meet the native women anddance around them, waving its arms, but does not often harm them. A soko hunt is quite exciting. The natives surround a patch of grassand set it on fire. When the sokos appear they are attacked with spears,but woe betide the unlucky hunter who misses his thrust, for the soko^ willturn on him, seize his spear break it and badly maul the owner. It is seldom THE SOKO that more than one or two sokos are killed in this way, for they are wonder-fully agile and swift of foot, and vanish in no time. A hunter who was traveling near the Victoria Nyanza came upon acolony of sokos. He watched them for some hours. At first he was puzzledto know what they were, for they looked at that distance like giganticbaboons. The sokos were making a curious drumming noise, and at certainintervals they would howl in chorus. After a while they discovered that theywere being watched, and it seemed at first as if they would run off. They
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roared and barked in chorus, waving their arms as if ordering the hunteraway. Seeing that no harm was intended, they came closer, their curiositygetting the better of their caution. The bright buttons on his clothes seemedto cause them great delight. Suddenly he found that one soko had crept upbehind him and was fingering his gun-case and chattering loudly. All theother sokos set up loud cries, and the man, believing he was about to be at-tacked, fired at the largest soko. The poor beast fell dead while the othersscampered off, leaving the hunter alone.

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  • booksubject:Hunting
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