Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



having torn up the cultivation, which meant that 

 he was now on his way to sleep his dinner off. 



Soon we heard a crash half-way up the hill-side, 

 which here formed somewhat of an amphitheatre 

 sloping down to the river. The guide stopped 

 dead. " Fil ! " Another tearing, rending sound. 

 "Henak! Fok ! " 



Then, having got the direction, we saw, three 

 hundred yards away, the branches of a small tree 

 oscillating wildly to and fro, quickly followed by 

 a smash. That was good enough ; there he was 

 at last. But we waited for some ten minutes, 

 carefully scanning the hill-side round this tree in 

 case other bushes should be seen performing the 

 same antics, which would have betokened the 

 presence of a herd. 



But no ! All else was still. 



I may here say that I think the only animal in 

 the jungle that the savage is really particular 

 about is the elephant : this is by reason of the 

 value of the tusks, rather than because they 

 consider him dangerous. Your gun-bearer in 

 the presence of elephants will take the greatest 

 possible care of the direction of the wind, and 

 will descend to any detail to leave no stone 

 unturned on the side of caution to bring you up 

 to the beast unperceived. 



Now the real business of the day began. We 

 moved quietly forward in the animal's direction 

 for a hundred yards or so, taking up handfuls of 



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