CHAPTER VI 



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

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

 Fortnight'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. 



Next morning I sent a boy down early to see it 

 elephants had drunk at the water during the night. 

 As they had not done so, and it being Sunday, I 

 determined to have a day's rest ; so, keeping a couple 

 of Kafirs with me at the skerm, I sent the others to 

 chop out the teeth of the two remaining elephants, 

 and then taking my blankets and a copy of Byron's 

 poems, and establishing myself under a shady tree, I 

 prepared to pass a lazy morning. During the day a 

 honeybird came to the skerm, chirping and fluttering 

 about from tree to tree, and doing its utmost to 

 attract our attention ; and so, reflecting that a little 

 fresh honey is always a welcome addition to one's 

 larder in the veldt, I told my two boys to take the 

 small axe and a firebrand (to smoke the bees) and 

 follow the noisy little fellow, and soon the faint sound 

 of chopping announced that he was not hoaxing, as 

 is sometimes the case, but had guided them to a nest 

 hard by. In about an hour they returned with a large 

 piece of mopani bark, bent up at both ends, full of 



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