There once lived a poor Dorobo woman, who, with her children, lived on the fruits of trees. When out searching for food one day she saw several dead birds under the keliot tree, so she took them home, together with some of the fruit of the tree, and gave them to her children to eat. As all the children fell ill after their meal, the woman took a stick of the tree and rubbed some of the juice on an arrow, which she gave to a boy and told him to go and shoot an animal. The boy returned almost immediately with a duiker, which, although only slightly wounded, had died at once. The woman then tried putting some of the juice of the tree by a salt-lick, and had the satisfaction the next day of finding a dead buffalo near at hand. She at once told her friends of her discovery and became rich and greatly honoured amongst her people.