‘cTREED” BY AN. ELEPHANT: e549 
of cold air, combining with the dew of night to freshen 
up the plants and trees. Outside the forest the view is 
superb. For five miles you see a series of green meadows 
sloping gradually downward, on which are grazing many 
sheep and goats; while far off to the west, beyond the 
yellow plain, rises rugged Kulol, and a still greater moun- 
tain below it,— Mt. Njyiro. Living on Marsabit are 
many Masai, enjoying themselves in the possession of 
large flocks of sheep and goats. In the two days that 
we remained at Marsabit, Dodson and I collected many 
rare specimens of birds and mammals, though we could 
catch no fish whatever in the lake. I also had some good 
sport with elephants. 
A small reddish-brown antelope suddenly dashed by us 
at one time, but we could not get a shot at it, and although 
we searched a long time we never saw anything like it 
again. 
On September 13 we marched fast for six hours over 
open grassy mountain fields, and camped by a rocky bed 
of a stream that had cut its way deep down between some 
hills. Before leaving the top of the mountain, however, I 
saw two elephants walk into the bushes about a quarter of 
amile away. After following them for some time, [ sud- 
denly found myself within twenty yards of ahuge bull. He 
was directly facing me, but quite motionless, and appar- 
ently asleep. “IThere was a small tree near to me, so 
motioning to Dodson and three of my boys who were with 
me to retreat, I crept cautiously around, and hiding myself 
behind the trunk of the tree, took aim and fired. The ele- 
phant uttered a low, vibrating sound, and then charged 
straight toward me. I had just time to reach the first 
branches of the tree before the beast’s head was almost 
touching my feet. How long the elephant stayed there 
whirling his trunk about in the air, but apparently not 
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