With Mashlii^iit and Rifle ^ 



of them to our destination by thej time darkness came on. 

 The other reniained lyin^y out on the velt. 



With difficulty we got to the water late in the night, 

 chietly by dint of setting fire to the dried-up velt 

 several times on the way, and thus managing to see 

 where we were going. Next morning, when succour was 

 sent to the man left behind, it arrived too late. The 

 unfortunate fellow had been killed by rhinoceros(;s during- 

 the night, and then been entirely torn to pieces by lions. 

 So we gathered from their tracks. His body lay on a 

 deeply trodden rhinoceros-path. 



It should be borne in mind that at this time all my 

 carriers were good experienced men, carefully selected. 

 In spite of this, here was a mishap which it was quite 

 impossible for me to ward off On other occasions it 

 has often happened that men from my caravan, having 

 lost their way, have had to sleep out in the oi)en, either 

 up in trees or upon the ground, but without coming to 

 any harm. 



No sportsman who has hurit(-d the elephant much in 

 Africa has got through without some serious misadven- 

 tures ; many have been trampled upon and ha\e i)aid 

 for their boldness with their lives. 



The hunting of the African elephant, when undertaken 

 by oneself and under sportsman-like conditions, is an enter- 

 prise to which in the long run only a f(.;w men are equal. 

 IMany elephants have been killed— not in this way, but 

 with the helj) of the Askaris. I have seen photographs 

 representing a number of young elephants- — quite small, 

 some of them — slaughtered in this way, with a grou[) 



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