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CHAPTER IX. 



CASUALTIES TO ELEPHANT-HUNTERS DEATH OP WAHLBEIir. 

 CAREL KRIEOER'S FATAL ADVENTURE REVENGE OF A WOUNDED 

 ELEPHANT REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF LIEUTENANT MOODIE 

 LIFE OF THE ELEPHANT-HUNTER DANGERS AND HARDSHIP* 

 TO WHICH HE IS EXPOSED MAD WAGER AND ITS FATAL KK- 

 SULT ELEPHANT-HUNTING, BLOODY AND UNDESIRABLE WORK. 



/CASUALTIES amoDgst elephant-hunters are 

 VJ of frequent occurrence. Not a few of those, 

 indeed, who systematically follow the pursuit, 

 whether for sport or commercial purposes, 

 come to grief sooner or later. One of the best- 

 known victims of the infuriated animal was my 

 friend and countryman, the late Professor Wahl- 

 berg, of whose tragical end it was my painful duty 

 to send the following account to the Cape of Good 

 Hope Press : 



Professor Wahlberg met his end whilst hunting 

 to the north-east of Lake Ngami. A Swede by 

 birth, ho arrived for the first time in this colony 

 (Table Bay) in September, 1838. He remained at 

 the Capo until the following April, 1839, when he 

 embarked for Port Natal. Hence he penetrated into 

 the interior, considerably beyond the Zulu country, 

 extending his expeditions even as far as the banks 



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