CHAPTER V 



"InxwaLi" Dance — Matabclc War Dress — Black Rhinoceros — Bull 

 Elephants — Linqiiasi Valley — Permanent Encampment — Hunting 

 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. 



About the middle of January George Wood reached 

 Gubulawayo very much knocked out of time by 

 fever ; indeed he was so bad that upon reaching 

 Hope Fountain, the residence of the hospitable 

 missionary Mr. Thomson, he had to be lifted out of 

 his waggon and carried into the house. Once there 

 his troubles were almost over, and, thanks to the 

 untiring kindness and attention of Mrs. Thomson 

 and her husband, he was soon on a fair way to 

 recovery. 



George Wood, with whom I became associated 

 for more than two years, had the reputation of being 

 a skilful and experienced hunter, and, besides this, I 

 afterwards found him to be a very cool and courage- 

 ous man, one whose pulse beat as calmly when face 

 to face with a wounded and angry lion or a charging 

 elephant, as it did when quietly eating his breakfast. 

 He was the last of the English professional elephant- 

 hunters in this part of the country, having hunted 

 for many years in company with the veteran Hartley 



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