284 MAGNIFICENT IVORIES. 



quest of large game. During my walk I saw no f resli 

 spoor, though there was plenty as new as yesterday ; 

 but all the elephants had evidently been frightened, 

 and had left these parts. I also discovered that two 

 other herds had been frightened away from close to 

 where I had killed the bull, and had borne down every- 

 thing before them in their precipitate flight. The 

 jungles here were full of gazelles. These beautiful 

 creatures were not in the least startled by my ap- 

 pearance, constantly standing and staring at me till 

 within pistol-shot of them, and then only walking 

 quietly away. Indeed, all the antelopes seem to have 

 but little fear of man, for two herds of waterbuck 

 which I saw during my walk were equally tame. One 

 of these, which contained an exceedingly fine male, 

 allowed me to walk to within twenty yards of them, 

 and only then, on my raising my rifle (though I did 

 not intend firing), did they trot quietly away a short 

 distance, when they pulled up, turned round, and 

 stood staring at me again, causing Moloka to remark 

 " Nyama (game) no savez English lion !" 



Finding no fresh spoor of elephants, I returned to 

 camp at eleven o'clock, and after a good breakfast we 

 set to work about the tusks. I made the natives clean 

 the whole head of the animal, with the intention of 

 bringing home the skull perfect, but finding it so 

 massive and heavy, was obliged to abandon the idea, 

 and ended by cutting out the ivories, one of which 

 measured six feet seven inches in length, and twenty- 

 two inches in circumference, the other proving an inch 

 shorter, but a quarter of an inch more in circumfer- 

 ence. They were indeed a spendid pair, and both 



