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hastened to join our master, but had not proceeded 

 far when we met the Bushman running in breath- 

 less haste towards us. We inquired for M. Wahl- 

 berg and were told that the elephant had caught 

 him ! Hurrying to the spot indicated, we found 

 only the mangled remains of our poor master, which 

 the enraged beast had just quitted ; there was no 

 sign of life. Indeed, the body was so fearfully 

 mutilated as to be scarcely recognizable ; we care- 

 fully collected and buried the remains.' 



*"' I deeply regret that, owing to the weak state 

 of my health," Mr. Green goes on to say, " I was 

 unable to proceed to the fatal spot ; but even could 

 I have reached the place, at least twelve days must 

 have elapsed from the time of the catastrophe, the 

 distance from our waggons being very considerable. 



" M. Wahlberg was a most determined and a 

 most successful elephant - hunter, but he was far 

 too adventurous, and his bravery throughout this 

 dangerous hunting placed him in extreme peril with 

 elephants upon numerous occasions, and, alas ! 

 terminated at last so fatally. 



" I had frequently endeavoured to impress upon 

 M. Wahlberg the danger of ' foot-hunting,' but he 

 always insisted upon its being the most safe ; and, 

 though I myself had never thought of pursuing such 

 a course upon any former trip (nor had I ever met 

 a European during my journeys in this portion of 

 Africa who hunted elephants in any other way than 

 by means of thorough good horses), yet from the suc- 

 cess that attended my friend, I latterly also became 

 a foot-hunter. It was M. Wahlberg' s opinion that 



