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loss of blood in a short time, thus positively killed 

 by one. man with two strokes of the sword." 



" That the above extraordinary style of hunting 

 should be attended with superlative danger, and 

 that the hunters ahould frequently fall victims to 

 their intrepidity must," as Sir Samuel Baker truly 

 remarks, " be evident to every one." 



Still further, however, to shew the courage and 

 daring of the remarkable individuals in question, it 

 may be proper to mention that on a certain occa- 

 sion a number of men were sent by Sir Samuel into 

 the forest to bring home the flesh and spoils of 

 several elephants shot on the preceding day, and 

 that on the return of the party, one of the three 

 Aggajeers, named loli, who had accompanied it, 

 was borne on a litter to the encampment witli a 

 broken thigh. The cause of the accident was 

 tli us explained by Abou Do, one of the unfortunate 

 man's companions. 



" While the party of camel-men and others were 

 engaged in cutting up the dead elephants, the three 

 Aggajeers had found the track of a bull that had 

 escaped wounded. In that country, where there 

 was no drop of water upon the east bank of the 

 Settite for a distance of sixty or seventy miles to 

 the river Gask, an elephant, if wounded, was afraid 

 to trust itself in the interior. One of our escaped 

 elephants had, therefore, returned to the thick 

 jungle, and was tracked by the Aggajeers to a 

 position within two or three hundred yards of the 

 dead elephants. As there wore no guns, two of 

 the Aggajeers, utterly reckless of consequences, 



