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CHAPTER VIII. 



Providing the Natives with Meat — Moloka, Chinsoro, and Native Sports- 

 men — On the Spoor of Elephants — Sufferings from Thirst — Bowled 

 over — Accident to Gumtickler — -Successful Sport — Fine Gemsbock 

 — A Scene of Wild Life — Surgical Operation on a Wounded Boy — 

 Walk to Pamafunda — I leave the Expedition — Again after Ele- 

 phants — Renewed Sufferings from Thirst — In a Native Village — 

 An Effective Shot — Dinner prepared by Chinsoro — Death of a Fine 

 Elephant. 



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R. YOUNG informed me that lie would re- 

 main here all next day, as Maramia had pro- 

 mised to bring some tusks for sale ; and while I 

 was cooking my marrow bones at the fire, a native 

 came up, and said that he and his brother, having 

 heard that the white chief (Foomy) who had killed 

 so many elephants and buffalo had returned, wanted 

 to take him out early next morning, as their families 

 had no meat. I consented to accompany them the 

 following day in search of elephants or buffalo, which 

 they said were to be found some way off, and after 

 dinner set to work cleaning guns and making all the 

 necessary preparations for a long day's shooting. 



As we had always a number of live fowl in the 

 boat, and the cocks crew regularly, there was no ne- 

 cessity of being " called " in the early morning. The 



