CHAPTER XX 



Start Northwards — Elephants and Buffalo shot — Antelope fouml deatl — 

 Long Palaver with Mamele — Relics of a Mission Party — Shoot 

 Lioness — Reach Site of Linyanti — Prayers for Good Luck — Find 

 Skeleton of Kafir devoured by Lion — Huffaloes and Hippopotamus 

 shot — Visit to the Grave of a Great Warrior — Vain attempt to 

 propitiate his Ghost — Seven elephants killed, one wounded — 

 French follows the wounded one with two Kafirs — His long 

 Absence — Unsuccessful Attempt to follow him — Return of one of 

 the Kafirs — His sad Story — French dead oi Thirst — Impossibility 

 of fintling the Body — Attacks of Fever — Journey on foot to the 

 Chobe — Four Lions drink by our Camp— Their terrific Roaring 

 ■ — Return to the Transvaal — -Ague and Fever — Recovery — Last 

 Start for the Far Literior. 



On June i8 we lett the waggons, and crossing the 

 Mababe river at the Masubia towns, about nine 

 miles below our waggons, made a start northwards, 

 accompanied by over fifty Makuba and Masubia 

 Kafirs, whom we had hired between us. 



At first we followed the course of the Machabe 

 river, but finding that our party was so large as to 

 make it difficult to keep all our Kafirs in meat, we 

 separated, French and Miller crossing the sand-belts 

 to the Sunta river, whilst Collison, Sell, and I held 

 on up the Machabe. Two or three days later, how- 

 ever, as we found that there were many Kafir hunters 

 from Lake Ngami in front of us, and as we saw no 

 elephant spoor, Collison and I left Sell and struck 

 over to the Chobe, where a few days later we rejoined 



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