Monday, October 22, 2007

The mole hunter

He is about 5 feet tall, his spear is 6 feet. He is an elderly Batwa who is sometimes employed by the diocese to clear the cathedral grounds of “ifucu”, or moles. He wanders about barefoot, but for a lot of the time he stands very still over a spot where he has opened up the soil under a molehill.
I have never seen him actually in action, but his success rate is quite high : I have seen the petty cash payments, of 200 Frw (about 20p) per mole killed.

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