CHAPTER XIV 



Start for the Zambesi — Death of Lieutenant Grandy — Fever — Scarcity 

 of Elephants — Buffaloes — Anecdotes of — Disposition, Size of Horns, 

 etc. — Spotted Bushbuck — Send Waggons to the Matabele Country 

 — Prepare for Expedition across the Zambesi. 



Early in April 1877 I again reached Tati, and after 

 riding to Gubulawayo, to pay a visit to Lobengula, 

 at once started for the Zambesi. 



On this trip I was accompanied by two white 

 men, Mr. Kingsley, an EngHshman, and Mr. Miller, 

 a young colonist and a first-rate shot. They were 

 shooting on halves for me, i.e. I paid all expenses 

 and found them in everything, on the condition that 

 half the ivory of the elephants they shot belonged to 

 me. I had, besides, several native hunters in my 

 service. As, however, during the whole season the 

 only elephants killed were a very small cow and two 

 calves shot by Miller — the ivory valuing less than 

 ^'2 — this trip was a dreadful failure, pecuniarily 

 speaking, and very nearly ruined me, as, expecting 

 to find plenty of elephants up the Chobe, I had 

 arranged the hunt on a large scale. We all hunted 

 separately, so as to cover more country, but, with 

 the exception of the three shot by Miller, and a 

 small herd encountered by Mr. Kingsley, when he 

 failed to score, none of us had the luck to come 

 across any elephants at all. 



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