CHAPTER VII 



Bad Weather — Slow Travelling — Mr. and Lieut. Ganlen — 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 tor 

 Game. 



Until the latter end of November we continued 

 hunting with varying success, sometimes in the 

 neighbourhood of the Gwai river, at others in the 

 dense wait-a-bit thorn jungles to the north and west 

 of Linquasi, and by that time the rainy season having 

 tairly set in, we trekked back again to Gubulawayo, 

 carrying with us nearly 5000 lbs. weight of very 

 fine ivory. During the summer months we spent 

 the greater part of the time trekking about the country 

 trading, and made an excursion across the high and 

 open downs lying to the south-east of the Matabele 

 country, to the junction of the Ingesi and Lunti rivers, 

 where we found some hippopotami, but did not shoot 

 any, though we had very good sport amongst the 

 herds of blue wildebeests, zebras, and roan antelopes, 

 which frequented the flats. In March 1874 we 

 trekked down to Tati in company with Messrs. 

 P'airbairn and Dawson, two young Scotsmen, who 

 had been trading with Lobengula, and were now on 

 their way to Bamangwato with two fine loads of ivory. 



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