54 A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS ch. 



I need hardly say that I was intensely delighted with 

 the result of this my first elephant-hunting expedition, 

 and was eager to start on a second trip as .soon as 

 possible. 



Finding on my return to the camp at Jomani that 

 the Griquas and Hottentots were out of ammunition 

 and many other things, I decided to make a quick 

 run back to Gubulawayo with the cart, and procure a 

 supply of what was wanted from Mr. Kisch. Accord- 

 ingly, having borrowed four fat oxen, I inspanned 

 and started the following day. On reaching Gwenia 

 I found that the Viljoens had returned from the 

 Veldt, bringing with them a fine lot of ivory. Sadlier 

 was very much dissatisfied, saying that the Boers had 

 claimed an elephant which he had shot first, and, as 

 he did not care about hunting any more, he returned 

 to Gubulawayo. 



There being a splendid moon, I travelled day and 

 night, and on the fifth night reached Gubulawayo, 

 and loading up all I required except provisions, none 

 of which were to be had, I started back again the 

 same evening, and reached Jomani once more after 

 an absence of only ten days. The country was now 

 getting fearfully parched up and the heat very great, 

 as the rains were due, and the most oppressive 

 weather is always just before the rainy season 

 commences. 



On the 2nd of November Cigar and I again went 

 in on foot after the elephants, and in the afternoon 

 of the very first day, after following some distance 

 on their spoor, we came up with a herd of eight or 

 ten bulls, four of which we killed, two of them falling 

 to my rifle. 



Two days later, as we were resting late in the 

 afternoon under a shady tree, and when not far from 



