234 AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES 



chauffeur to keep from being run down?" I 

 inquired. 



"Did 11 Being charged by elephants is such 

 a common occurrence to an ivory hunter that 

 he remembers only the dangerous charges. The 

 most thrilling escape that ever happened to me 

 occurred in the very country to which you are 

 now going. 



"We had so far made a good kill of ivory. 

 One noon three of my trackers who had been 

 looking for fresh signs returned and told me 

 that, some five miles north, they had discovered 

 a watering-place on the Nile where elephants 

 came to drink. 



" I took my gun bearer Kongoni Swahali 

 for hartebeest three trackers, my blankets, and 

 two days' grub and left at once. 



"Late in the afternoon we arrived at the 

 spot. The earth along the bank near the water- 

 ing-place was trodden hard by huge feet, and, 

 after looking over the scene, I saw at once that 

 the elephants must have watered there the 

 night before. 



"There was little use in trying to trail them 

 up that day, for they might be twenty miles 

 away, so we back-tracked a mile and went into 



