With I'hi^hlight and Rifle ^^ 



bull reached IJerlln, where he has been in the Zoological 

 Gardens for some years. Herr Dominik has i^iven a 

 lucid account ot his hunt in his book entitled '/'/ic 

 Ca)uc]-oous, and it was not without a certain tceling ot 

 en\'\- that I read those interesting j)ages. 



How well htted out these colonial police officers 

 always are tor the carrying" through ot such an expe- 

 dition, and how scant)' by comparison the resource's of a 

 private individual! It is to be hoped that the next 

 attempt ot this kind may be successful, but there seems 

 little prospect ot^ this just at present. 



I)Ut what I regretted, perhaps even more than my 

 failure to capture thc^ young animal, was my having been 

 unalde to take a ])hotograph of those five-and-twenty 

 elephants rushing towards me. Willingly would 1 have 

 given a finger of my h^md to have l)een able to take a 

 really good |)ictun/. of those mighty, int^uriated animals in 

 the middle of their onrush. 



In December 1900 I had a somewhat similar ex- 

 perience. After about eight days of fruitless endeavour 

 upon a part of the velt which was already co\'ered with 

 green, I came upon a small herd of elephants, out of which, 

 after killing his mother, I managed to capture a small 

 bull about a year and a half old. It was only witli the 

 greatest troubk; that 1 secured him — he had no tusks, 

 f)rtunately — by getting right in Iront of him and oxer- 

 throwing him. and thus gixing my \\'andorol)o an oppor- 

 tunity of fistcming his hind-legs witli thongs ot leatln'r. 

 With immense- difficult}- we got the animal back to camp; 

 but lor lack of eiicnigh milk I did not succeed in keeping 



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