sturdy and independent. They are, as a rule, nomadic, and I have never met anyone who has seen them in large numbers in a settlement. Being hunters, they follow the game in small parties, changing their locality with the migration of the game. Since they are the only real hunters in the Congo Basin, and are versed in all the science of woodcraft, the ordinary traveller (European or native) may pass within a few yards of them and be utterly unaware of their presence, though they meanwhile may be watching him.

Their short stature enables them to run along a game-path with perfect ease, which to an ordinary man would be impassable unless bent nearly double. In fact, it is as difficult for an ordinary man to find, or to see, them in the forest as it is for a town-bred person in this country to discover mice in a