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Elephant-Hunting 



him alive, thouo-h he seemed to get on all rii^ht on my 

 treatment of him for the first few days. 



He was on the friendliest terms with me within 

 forty-eight hours, and used to caress my beard and face 

 with his little trunk in the drollest way. It was a thousand 

 pities that the animal soon died. Thus ended Ijoth niy 

 efforts. 



Another very serious mishap fell to my lot quite 



ELEPHANT SKULL AND BONES 



unexpectedly in November 1903. My caravan was making 

 a lone cUid difficult n^iarch from hill to hill towards the 

 next drinking-place, and I, as usual, was at the head 

 of it. After we had been about four hours afoot, I brought 

 down two female antelopes. While some ot my men were 

 busy cutting them up, having put down their burden (many 

 of them, however, were still straggling behind), I went 



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