Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



hastily pulling my arm. Together we crouched 

 down behind the ant-heap on which we had been 

 standing, and watched in breathless suspense. The 

 leader was a fair size. He came majestically along, 

 twinkling his small eyes in a cunning manner, 

 flapping his great ears to and fro, with his two 

 ivory tusks gleaming in the sun. I was greatly 

 relieved to see his ugly, slouching stern disappear- 

 ing behind some bushes. Three others followed of 

 inferior size, then a female with a lot of young. 

 These latter were gambolling all over the place, so 

 that I made certain our presence would be given 

 away by one or other of them. However, they 

 eventually all disappeared after their leader. 



We then followed along their tracks, and by so 

 doing saved ourselves infinite trouble, for the long 

 elephant grass was nine feet high, which made it 

 almost impossible to see even where you were 

 going, and made the pace hopelessly slow. 



Coming to a rise in the ground about mid-day I 

 took a good look round. We were practically right 

 in amongst them again. I made out through my 

 glasses a couple which had halted beneath the 

 shade of a clump of trees about half a mile away. 

 One of these appeared to have heavy ivory, so I 

 elected to give chase. For one whole hour I lost 

 sight of them, while we threaded our way through 

 the course and heavy undergrowth. We appeared 

 to be going in a diametrically opposite direction, 

 and I checked my orderly rather shortly. He 

 merely placed his finger on his lips, saying, "W^ait a 



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