Has anyone ever read this book by Jean-Pierre Hallet? It’s an account of his twelve years as a game warden/naturalist in the Congo. He came close to losing his life a number of times.
One of the articles he wrote was about his attempts to contact the pygmies in the deep jungle. He went in by himself so as not to scare them,,,and he got hit with an arrow. He said when he pulled it out, he at first thought, “Why a wooden arrowhead?”, Then he realized it was poisoned. The pygmies soaked the wooden heads in a poison so that the monkeys they shot would not cling to the tree too hard, but fall out. He had a rough go of it getting over the sickness but eventually gained their trust.
He also killed a lion with nothing but a short spear and a shield…he almost died from that also.
