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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Take leave of Sicomy — Diggiug for Water — The Elephant's Fountain 

 again — A wouiitled Roan Antelope bays in the Water, and kills my 

 Dogs right and left — Sicomy's Camp again — We march through a 

 beautiful Valley — Curious Instinct of the Rhinoceros Bird — A miglity 

 Bull Elephant shot after a hard Conflict — IMutchuisho's Attentions 

 more charitable than pleasant — Cutting up an Elephant — A strange 

 Scene — Baking the Flesh — Primitive Tobacco-pipes — Biltongiie Fes- 

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CHAPTER XVI. 



Elephant Spooring with the Natives — The Mystic Dice — Hunt in a 

 Wait-a-bit Thorn Cover — Romantic Gorge in the Mountains — Sabie 

 — Ancient Elephant Path — Ludicrous Native Signal — A noble Bull 

 Elephant slain — Isaac, my Interpreter, dismissed — A Lioness bagged 

 at one Shot — Drunkenness and Disorder in Camp — My Manner of 

 taking the Field after the larger Game — Sicomy's Followers deseil 



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