IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



We took our guns, I taking " Bulldog" with me. 

 We had hardly walked an hour in the path, when we 

 came upon numerous elephant tracks. 



" They have gone towards the river," whispered 

 Shinshooko, as he looked in the direction in which 

 their footprints pointed. 



When we came to the river, we saw the canoe with 

 several paddles. It did not take us long to embark, 

 and we paddled so noiselessly down the stream that 

 our paddles could not be heard as they struck the 

 water. Before coming to a bend which commanded 

 the view of the river for a long distance, we landed 

 to search further down. Shinshooko went to the 

 extreme end of the point, where a better view could 

 be obtained. In a short time he returned. I could 

 see by his face that he had good news to tell us. He 

 had seen the elephants. 



We followed the left bank of the river, and came to 

 a place where we saw a herd of elephants standing 

 close together. Foremost was a large bull elephant, 

 their leader. I counted twenty-seven elephants. Their 

 big ears were moving continually, and their trunks 

 were swinging up and down. They were trumpeting 

 and squealing. Some were very large. The bull 

 seemed to be about ten and a half feet in height, some 

 of the cows nine and a half feet. 



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