DEATH OF M WAHLDEHG. o/f 



shot; another was killed by Kooleman. Tlicnco 

 we continued on the spoor of the t\vo remaining, 

 one of which we fell in with and shot on the 

 following day. The fourth morning 1 we recovered 

 the track of the young bull which we had taken 

 up on the day of leaving the waggons. Not being 

 able to come up with him before nightfall, we slept 

 (as we had done on previous occasions) on the 

 spoor. The next day, feeling hungry, and having 

 managed to shoot a zebra, we camped for the night. 

 The ensuing day, still continuing on the track, we 

 reached a vley, where we bivouacked. Xext morn- 

 ing we passed through a village situated on the 

 banks of a large river called Tamalakan, or Tama- 

 nacle (see Dr. Livingstone's Ma})). The inhabi- 

 tants were Bakoba, from whom we obtained some 

 pumpkins, our master's provisions being exhausted. 

 In the evening of this day we at last overtook the 

 young elephant, which we found standing together 

 with another elephant (an old bull), in an open flat 

 near a small vley. We approached them with diffi- 

 culty. Our master and Kooleman fired throe shots 

 at the larger elephant, which then fled towards the 

 river, where we soon found and overtook him. M. 

 Wahlberg now sent us forward to turn the elephant 

 towards a point where he took up a position in 

 order to intercept him. We succeeded, and having 

 fired a shot at him, he ran furiously in the direction 

 of our master, but out of range. M. Y^ ahlberg, 

 accompanied by a Bushman from the wcrft we had 

 passed through, then followed his spoor. Shortly 

 afterwards, hearing the elephant trumpeting, we 



