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Kos

We are Westeners usually just hear of it or see evidence of it.

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On my first safari to Zim on a drive back to camp one night the PH pulled out a spotlight to see if we could spot some hyaena. Viv Bristow was doing live game capture on Chipisi (the property near West Nicholson now gone to Warvet scum) and wanted a dead hyaena to freeze and ship to Kenya for use a a prop in a movie.

Anyway I didn't know any of this yet and we spotted a couple of hyaena and I was urged to "shoot, shoot!"

I took a shot just as the hyaena was crossing out of the light to the side of the road and missed it.

I really didn't want to shoot a hyaena and there was no fucking way I was going to pay for one either. So didn't mind missing it. A lot of these guys all they think of is dollars and all clients are "loaded with them".

Anyway he then tells me Bristow was going to pay US$100 for the carcase, which if I hit it, I'm sure I would never have been told.

He then said, Oit would have been interesting to see which of the men would have handled the hyaena". Judea, his tracker he said "would pick up the hyaena, but which of the others would. Would the Christian pick up a hyaena?"

(I had had a conversation with George, the game scout at Chipisi, and he had said he was a Christian and had been educated at a Christian school. Later when the PH talked to him, he also found out George had served under the PH's father, a general, in a post-black government militia (one to help reconstruct the country).

Anyway the PH told me the blacks think hyaena are spirits or witches and move in the night, and will not touch them due to superstition.

This gave me a good excuse for "missing" the hyaena. It was not a hyaena at all, but a spirit and the bullet passed through its "flesh" as if through smoke.

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