Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



beast pushing its tusk along the ground as if 

 wheeling a barrow, owing to its preponderous 

 weight. The only drawback appeared that all thdse 

 sporstmen seemed agreed that it had only one tu^. 

 I questioned the native, but he could not tell nie 

 whether the one he had just seen had two or one. 



So away we trudged again after our native hunter, 

 and at such a good pace that I soon found myself 

 o-ettinof short of breath. I slowed down, as I never 



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believe in srettine flurried on these occasions, for 

 when the time arrives to shoot your aim becomes 

 very unsteady. We approached with extreme 

 caution, trying to crawl round on the fringe of the 

 herd, which had halted for their noontide rest, but 

 the object of our search had been located in rather a 

 difficult spot, and we had to risk a bit. I began to 

 get quite nervous. I could distinguish elephants on 

 three sides of us. At last my native hunter pulled 

 up behind a low bush and pointed with his clenched 

 fist in the manner peculiar to them. I crept up and 

 tried to get a glimpse, but the grass was over my 

 head even when standing up; so I summoned my 

 orderly and I climbed on his shoulders. There was 

 my friend standing sideways to me, and, true enough, 

 with a really enormous tusk. I will not even make 

 a guess at its probable size, as I cannot obtain 

 corroboration for my statement ; suffice it to say it 

 was the biggest I had seen, or ever likely to see. 

 Just at that moment it quietly and deliberately 

 swung round, and I saw that the second tusk was 

 conspicuous by its absence. Nevertheless, I was 



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