380 Incidents of Foreign F^ield Sport, 



pan ion and the Africans was the ease with which I 

 rolled over elephants, formidable beasts like hippo- 

 potami and rhinoceros with one or two bullets each. 

 The leader appeared very friendly, and we got on 

 very well together, so I often gave him a tot of grog. 

 We had gone a good distance inland, fully 100 miles, 

 but the Kruboys did not like penetrating so far, and 

 Blue Kuin often said to me, " Master, go no furder. 

 Country bad people bad chief very bad." But I 

 only laughed at him and told him I wanted to see the 

 hot spring, and crevasses with gas issuing therefrom, 

 which I had heard of, and which now were only a 

 few days off from where we then were ; but the poor 

 fellow shook his head and was dead against our pro- 

 ceeding. A couple of days after a successful hunt, 

 Blue Kuin again came to me and said, " Master, 

 chief very bad man hate master want big gun, and 

 will kill we and master." " Why, Blue Kuin," I 

 replied, " I promised to give the big gun to him after 

 our trip. Why should he hate me and want to kill 

 me? I givre him plenty of dash." "I no know," 

 replied my follower, " but master find out I speak 

 truth." A couple of days after this, the chief told me 

 we were then in the gorilla country, and that he would 

 take me to a forest where the man-monkey abounded, 

 but said I need not take more than one of my men, 

 as he was going with me himself and would give every 

 assistance. So accordingly, we started at daybreak 

 next morning ; Blue Ruin carried my big rifle, I the 

 '577, but my attendant was very despondent and 

 kept warning me not to trust to my ebony acquaintance 

 as he was very wicked and wanted to make " chop " 

 of me ; in other words, to kill me. But the idea seemed 



