Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



herd, as we came on the spoor of a considerable 

 number leading away from the lake a short way 

 ahead. When cutting him up, we found em- 

 bedded in the flesh of his hindquarters two 

 barbed arrow-heads which had been broken off 

 short, leaving only the iron tips inside two large 

 festering- sores. This accounted for his truculent 

 appearance, and showed that natives had been 

 after the herd. They pursue buffalo and ele- 

 phants at this time of the year with poisoned 

 arrows. Having noiselessly stalked them, they 

 discharge their deadly weapons from close quar- 

 ters and leave the wretched animals to die a 

 lingering death, trusting to being guided to the 

 corpse by the sign of the birds of prey which 

 wheel in the sky overhead. Of course there is a 

 law against this, but, no matter how stringent the 

 legislation be, so long as there is no game ranger 

 to enforce it these atrocities will continue, and the 

 beasts of the jungle will continue to suffer. Some 

 there are who say that the Unyoro elephant will 

 die out, as they admittedly carry the biggest 

 tusks in Uganda ; and although there are great 

 numbers of them, they are the more easily got at 

 from Entebbe — with any certainty — than any 

 other herds. On the other hand, all the herds in 

 the neighbourhood of Masindi, near Kilianongo 

 and Paniatoli, have been so tremendously shot 

 at in the last few years that their tempers have 

 been ruined, and they are thereby in more or 



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