ELEPHANT FRIENDS AND FOES 57 
Lualaba River, and during the five days that we spent 
going down that river we saw only a few antelope, 
perhaps a half dozen elephants and, as I remember it, 
two or three hippopotami. On the entire journey 
to within fifty miles of Lake Edward and in all our 
hunting we found signs of only a few small bands of 
elephants. Men have spoken of darkest Africa, but 
the dark chapters of African history are only now 
being written by the inroads of civilization. 
