72 MODERN ELEPHANT HUNTING. 



A new world awakes and comes forth more numerous, if we 

 may judge by the noise, than that which is abroad by day. 

 Lions and hyaenas roar around us. Strange birds sing their 

 agreeable songs, while others scream and call harshly, as if 

 in fear, or anger. Marvellous insect sounds fall upon the 

 ear ; one, said by the natives to proceed from a large beetle, 

 resembles a succession of musical blows on an anvil, while 

 many others are indescribable. " * 



Coming now to more recent experiences Mr. F. C. 

 Selous, African Hunter, in 1872, states that he made a 

 clear profit of nearly 300, on ivory obtained from 

 elephants killed in a trip of three months, f In the fol- 

 lowing year, 1873, in the Matabele country, between the 

 Gwai and to the south of the Shangani Rivers, about 

 Lat. 19 S. and Long. 17 E., in four months Mr. Selous 

 states that he killed 42 elephants to his own gun, 

 whose tusks averaged 70 Ibs weight, the largest being 

 74 Ibs. During the same time, he says, George Wood 

 shot about 50, and the Kaffir hunters about 40 

 more that would make a total of i32. 



On one occasion, on September i7th, 1878, during 

 a later trip, they secured 2 2 elephants in one day ; 

 and on another occasion (in 1878) a party of Kaffirs 

 on a plain killed 19." ** 



At the end of his book, Mr. Selous gives a game 

 list, specifying the various descriptions of game shot 

 between January i, 1877, and December 31, 1880, by 



* Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and of the Discovery 

 of Lakes Shiriva and Nyassa (1858 1864), by David and Charles 

 Livingstone, 1865, pp. 210 to 213. 



f See A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, a Narrative of Nine 

 Years among the Game of the Far Interior (1871 1880), by Fredk. 

 C. Selous, 1 88 1, p. 51. 



See Ibid. p. 56. 



** See Ibid. p. "343. 



