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adorned with an unusually fine pair of horns, and 

 some meat, hastened homewards. I did not reach 

 the boat till after ten o'clock, and must say I was tired 

 after the day's work. Mr. Young was astonished 

 when I showed the elephants' tails, and the natives, 

 grouped round my guides, listened with open mouths 

 to their narrative of the sport. These men, as they 

 told their story, might be seen flinging themselves 

 into the most extraordinary and eccentric attitudes, 

 evidently showing how I had been knocked over. 



Having promised to start early next morning for 

 the meat and tusks, I gave Maramia's men their pay, 

 which consisted of a yard of calico, value fourpence 

 halfpenny, to each, a reward with which they were 

 contented. When I turned in they were all ^ hard at 

 work dancing and singing round a large fire, the 

 words "jovo" and "Angelaisee" being heard in al- 

 most every sentence. 



Mr. Young had promised to remain next day, so 

 that the tusks might be brought in the boat. Ac- 

 cordingly at dawn the following morning Chinsoro 

 roused me from slumber, saying that the coffee was 

 ready and the men h£(,d arrived. I was soon up and 

 off. Seeing, as I started, only five or six of Maramia's 

 men with me, I asked them if no more were coming to 

 carry the four elephants home to their village ? I was 

 informed that when I had gone a little further, I should 

 find plenty of men waiting to join us ; and about a 

 hundred yards further on I found a sea of black heads 

 awaiting my arrival. Men, women and children, to 

 the number of at least three hundred, were squatted 



