MR. FRED GILLETT’S ELEPHANT HUNT, 59 
see anything in the country. Fred told me briefly of his 
journey as follows: — 
He journeyed for twenty-five miles, and on the follow- 
ing day his guide took him out to show him the track of 
an elephant two days old, and told him to look at it 
with his instrument, and see where the animal was. “ At 
first I felt inclined to annihilate him; but seeing from his 
face that he was in earnest, and there was no humbug, I 
told him it was no use my looking at it. He said ‘The 
other man looks into his instrument, and afterwards he 
says, “ What do you call a place a hundred miles in that 
direction ? How many days does it take to reach a large 
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lake in that direction?”’ Not wishing to lose the man’s 
respect, I set up my camera, and turning to him, said very 
gravely, ‘This elephant has bad tusks, — one is broken ; 
and as he is very far away, I will return to camp.’ ” 
As it continued raining, and it was impossible to move, 
I managed to get considerable information from the 
natives concerning the man Sheikh Husein. Sheikh 
Husein came from Bagdad to this country two hundred 
years ago, with his lieutenant, Sheikh Mohammed, in order 
to convert the natives to Mohammedanism. He chose this 
lovely spot for his abode, while Sheikh Mohammed set- 
tled on a plateau thirty miles to the southwest. When the 
