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INDEX. 



East Africa, Sable in, 230. 



Shooting and hunting in, 4. 



Shooting of, (14. 



Shooting parties in, 203. 



Southern Game Reserve, 19. 



Stalking in, 124. 



Swamp-dwelling game of. 35. 



Tameness of game, i, 65. 



Town-bred sportsmen, 2. 



Tracking in, 136. 



Tropiiy hunter in, 22. 



Types of country in, 31, 64. 



Unadministrated lands and native tribes, 102. 



Uninteresting shooting of, 29. 



Water in, 30. 



Waterbuck of, 28. 

 Egret. 128. 

 Eland, 38, 64, 104, 161, 162, 163, 229. 



Coloration of, 53, 256. 



Habitat, 257. 



Inferior and superior horns of, 28. 



Native names for, 256. 



Spoor of, 142, 143, 146. 



Strong smell of, 62. 

 Elephant, 5, 73, 80, 105, 106, 124, 160, 185, 186, 

 229. 



A kingly sport, 5, 176. 



Alarmed, 180, 181, 251. 



Approaching, 181. 



As a dangerous quarry, 176, 177, 251. 



Assisting wounded comrade. 181. 



At night in the forest, 170. 



At the salt-licks, 171. 



Breeding-grounds of, 166. 



Charging, 182, 254. 



Charms of hunting, 178. 



Dangerous elephants of Enclave, 167. 



Description of hunting, 219, 223. 



Difficulty of seeing tusks, 255. 



Distance at which shot, 85. 



Distribution, 64, 81. 



Elephant country, 5, 88, 218. 



Elephant rising, 255. 



Elephant roads, 172, 252. 



Elephants of Enclave, 167. 



Elephants of Masindi, 167. 



Elephants more accessible formerly, 224. 



Elephant, Elephants winding the hunter, 220, 251, 

 232, 254. 

 Enraged, 177, 178. 

 Extremes of habitat, 28, 178. 

 Famous elephant centres, 164. 

 Favourite feeding-grounds, 184. 

 Female, 171, 176, 182, 253. 

 Fighting inter se, 253, 282. 

 Finishing off an, 255. 

 Fits of rage, 176. 

 Food of, 75, 81, 248, 255. 

 Grazing by night, 81, 107, 170, 248. 

 Habitat, 105, 106, 107, 162, 164, 165, 166, 



167, 168, 183. 

 Hair-producing power, 28. 

 Hardships in hunting, 6, 176, 178, 218. 

 Haunts of, 256. 

 Hearing of, 251. 

 Height of, 248, 249. 

 Herds' siesta, 171, 255. 

 Highland and lowland ivory, 28. 

 Hunting in the forest, 178, 179. 

 In a thunderstorm, 256. 

 In bamboo, 171, 179. 

 Kneeling of, 255. 

 Licence, 179, 223. 

 Listening for, 181. 219. 

 Long walks after, 5, 178, 180, 218, 222. 

 Lungs of, 253. 

 Measuring an, 248, 249. 

 Native names for, 247. 

 Native traps for, 183. 

 Old bull, 176, 252, 253. 

 On the plains, 107. 

 Positions in falling, 181, 248. 

 Question of shots, 181, 182. 

 Range of smell, 251. 

 Range of vision, 251. 

 Reading weight of ivory, 250. 

 Salt-licks, 252. 

 Separating and rejoining, 61. 

 Shots at, 181, 222. 



Size of foot and weight of tusks, 249. 

 Size of herds, 232. 

 Spoor of, 144, 146, 180, 230, 253. 

 Spreading and feeding, 180. 

 Stampeding, 179, 251. 



