An Elephant Hunt 



It took me some moments before I realized his 

 meaning, but as soon as I did I rode hard in the 

 direction of the shouting, followed by my Nuby 

 orderly, who luckily was carrying my .375 rifle. 

 My friend came behind on his "garry " (cycle), so 

 that we easily overtook and passed the com- 

 missioner, who was only mounted on a donkey. 



At the top of a hill we spied our friend, an 

 ancient animal with fine heavy tusks. I suppose he 

 was kicked out of the herd and had wandered into 

 the town by mistake. Driven frantic by the shouting 

 all around, he hardly knew what he was doing. He 

 passed quite close to the Boma and other trading 

 shops, about as much scared as the frightened in- 

 habitants. By this time, however, he had reached 

 the outskirts of the town, and was moving with some 

 celerity. My friend, who was very lame, kept on 

 assuring me that we could never overtake the beast 

 by the road we had come, so I stopped to take 

 counsel. My orderly very knowingly pointed out a 

 way by which we could cut off friend " Tembo," as, 

 owine to the lie of the g;round, he would in all 

 probability come round in a semi-circle. The 

 Commissioner was for keeping on, which he did. 

 My orderly was right to the letter. He led us round, 

 and then told us to wait in front of a fairly open 

 patch. I took the right, so as to have the first shot. 

 While we were waitino- we heard a orreat deal of 

 firing. Presently, to my horror, up loomed a huge 

 great object going at a great pace, and to all intents 

 bearing right down on us. My orderly had evidently 



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