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tusks, and concealed them somewhere close to the car- 

 cass of the elephant. Here they would most probably 

 have been concealed until I had left the country, when 

 they would have forwarded them to their chief. Just 

 as we reached the drift we met a string of natives re- 

 turning from my last elephant, bearing flesh and fat. 

 This was a fine opportunity for a seizure. I selected 

 several large bundles of the flesh and some fat, and 

 marched the same to camp on the shoulders of the 

 Bakalahari, along with the ivory. When Kapain saw 

 us arrive at camp, he was utterly confounded, and be- 

 gan to abuse the Bakalahari ; thereupon I bundled him 

 out of the kraal. In the afternoon we packed the ivory 

 in the baggage-wagon ; it had hitherto lain loose in the 

 kraal. There were fifty-three tusks of bull, and sev- 

 enteen tusks of cow elephants. Three pairs of these 

 bulls' teeth I intended to keep in my collection ; in the 

 cap-tent wagon were seven pairs of picked bulls' tusks, 

 and two pairs of cow elephants' tusks, all of which I 

 likewise devoted to my collection. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



We inarch up the Limpopo — The Gnapa Mountains — Immense Variety 

 of Game — Stalk and shoot two Sable Antelopes — Several Hounds 

 lost — Romantic Ravine in the Guapa Mountains — My Forest Home 

 —Buck Koodoos — Stalking Sable Antelopes — Two of my Horses die 

 from Tsetse — Continue our March — Countless Herds of Game. 



On the morning of the 8th of October we packed the 

 wagons, and about mid-day inspanned and left the Bak-. 

 alahari village, where we had lain for nearly six weeks. 



