It’s an extract from “Les chasseurs de Pythons” (pythons’ hunters) describing the extraordinary traditional hunting method of the exceptional G’bayas poachers, a tracker is using his own leg as bait, with the real risk of his limb being pulled off if the snake is big enough!
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Aristotle