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CHAPTER XII. 



Encamped on the Moanza — Village of Massahar — Arrival of the Search 

 — Another Sporting Expedition — The Downward Voyage of the 

 Search — Parting with Moloka — Enormous Herd of Elephants — 

 Loss of Ammunition — Pursued by an Elephant — Bad Luck — 

 Caught Napping— Unexpected Challenge — On the Ruo — Bishop 

 Mackenzie's Grave — Tracking a Wounded Waterbuck — Night Halt 

 at a Native Village — Bathing Enclosure — On a Sandbank — After a 

 Rhinoceros — Cassenga — Run into the Zambesi — Shupanga — Suj^ply 

 of Meat for the Poor Villagers — Kongoni Castle — Magnificent 

 Meteor — Return to England — A Word for Reid. 



EARLY next morning camp was removed to a suit- 

 able place on the Moanza, close to the dead 

 elephants, and the day was spent taking the tusks. 

 Before daylight a messenger was sent to Chibisa to re- 

 port the quantity of meat lying in the jungle, and about 

 5 P.M. some three hundred natives arrived, and at once 

 set to at the elephants, cutting up and drying the meat 

 in the usual way. Shortly after their arrival I strolled 

 out by myself, and not far from camp had the luck to 

 kill a splendid blessbock (damalis albifrons) by a good 

 running shot at eight yards with the Rigby 10. 

 When close to camp I succeeded in also capturing alive 

 a young fawn of the bushbock — the little thing being 



