298 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



elephant, but of remaining undiscovered — for our lives. 

 Cuninghame seemed to know more or less of the 

 probable course of the brutes. When he said run uphill, 

 I ran uphill; when he whispered run back, I did so. 

 After what seemed a very long time the row began to 

 recede. 



"That's all right," said Cuninghame. "TheyVe 

 gone off.'' 



We followed them a short distance. A clear road- 

 way twenty feet wide had been razed clean where the 

 herd had come together and gone off in a body. I 

 looked at my watch and was surprised to find it half- 

 past three already. We sent N'jahgi back for the men, 

 and huddled under a couple of big trees. 



"Bad luck," said Cuninghame. 



I thought it was extraordinarily good luck. 



"Want to try again?" asked Cuninghame. 



"Of course," said I; "why do you ask that?" 



"Well," said he, "some people simply cannot stand 

 it when the elephants begin to scream about them. 

 Courageous people, at that. I've had any number 

 flatly back out and make no bones about it. It's just 

 the way it happens to hit your nerves." 



We camped on the spot, at 7, 1 50 feet elevation. Two 

 of the giant forest hogs made off as we came up. We 

 were so jumpy that they scared us almost to death ! A 

 lot of Wanderobo came in with provisions. In the even- 

 ing it stopped raining, and we found some cedar wood 



