In Wildest Africa * 



could not ge-t hold oi it, however I was too much taken 

 up with the; hope of reaching the elephants ; but after 

 several more; hours of marching I had to call a halt in 

 order to gather new strength. In the end we did not 

 overtake! them. They had evidently been seriously dis- 

 quieted either by us or earlier by the \Vakamba people. 

 \Yhile we. were; pitching our camp in the evening, nearly 

 a day's journey from our camp of the night before, we 

 sighted one after another three herds of elands and four 

 rhinoceroses on their way out into the velt to graze. 

 During these two days I had come within shot of about 

 ten rhinoceroses while on the march, and had caught 

 glimpses of many more in the distance. 



The third day's pursuit of the elephants also proved 

 entirely fruitless. \Ye did not even come within sight of 

 a female specimen. 



My guides were now of opinion that the animals must 

 be so thoroughly alarmed that any further pursuit would 

 be almost certainly in vain, so we made our way back as 

 best we: could in a zigzag course te> my mam camp, and 

 reached it on the me>rning of the-, fourth day. 



Most elephant-hunts in Equatorial .Africa run on just 

 such lines as these; and with the: same: re-suit, yet they are 

 aiming the: line-st and metst interesting experiences that 

 any sportsman e>r naturalist can hope: te> have:. The wealth 

 of natural lite that had be-e-n give-n to my e:ye:s during those 

 three days was simply e>ve-rpoweTing. Hut i! you have. 

 once succeeded in getting within range: of an AfrieMii 

 elephant, all other kinds of wilel animals se:em small fry to 

 ye>u. \ou have the: same: kind of feeling that the: German 



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