xii A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS 



CHAPTER IV 



Eland shot — My First Elephant — "Cigar's" Skill in hunting Elephants 

 — Abundance of Game — Successful Bags — Drought — Rain — 

 Hardship — Maiming Elephants — Stabbing from Trees — A Murder 

 and Execution — " Bill" and the Crocodile . . Pages 48-63 



CHAPTER V 



"Inxwala" Dance — Matabele War Dress — Black Rhinoceros — Bull 

 Elephants — Linquasi Valley — Permanent Encampment — Hur ting 

 in the " Fly " — Profitable Shooting — Sketch of Country — Depopu- 

 lation by Zulus — Varieties of Fauna — Sable Antelope — A " Skerm" 

 — Extracts from Journal — A Grand Elephant-hunt — Narrow 

 Escape of a Kafir ........ 64-86 



CHAPTER VI 



Journal continued — A Rest— Fresh Honey — Start after Elephants — 

 Two Bulls shot — Tramp for Water — A Supperless Night — A Fort- 

 night's Hunting — Burying the Ivory — Rejoin Wood — Black 

 Rhinoceros — A Bees' Nest — White Rhinoceros — Six Bull Elephants 

 shot — A Kafir killed — Disastrous Elephant-hunt — Narrow Escape 

 — Accident — Return to Waggons ..... 87-122 



CHAPTER VII 



Bad Weather — Slow Travelling — Mr. and Lieut. Garden — Daka — Leave 

 the Waggons — Elephant-hunt ; first of Season — A Bath of Blood — 

 First Glimpse of Falls — Difficult Country — Magnificent Panorama 

 — Grandeur of Victoria Falls of Zambesi — Herd of Buffalo — Banks 

 of Zambesi — Double Lunar Rainbow — Pitfalls for Game i 23-1 39 



CHAPTER VIII 



Koodoo — Inipala — Tenacity of Life — Waterbuck — A new Servant — 

 The "Chobe" River — Pookoo Antelopes— Buffaloes — A wounded 

 Cow — Elephant-shooting — Lions at Night — Abundance of Buffalo 

 -^The "Pookoo Flats" — Mosquitoes and Tsetse Flies . 140-164 



