WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



dashed forward in the direction of the sound of 

 the shot, and I fully expected another to come along 

 with better effect. But when we had gone some sixty 

 yards we came across a low ant-hill and a nice bed 

 of grass with perfect rest for a rifle where the German 

 had been lying. Discussing the affair afterwards, we 

 came to the conclusion that the German sniper must 

 have been a naturalist, and had not got it in his heart 

 to put either of us out of action. 



At a place called Bura, between Tevita and Voy 

 on a branch line of the Uganda Railway, a herd of 

 well-behaved elephants wandered through the camp, 

 and one officer, Captain Gardner, of the Loyal North 

 Lanes., who were then in occupation, got some really 

 excellent photographs. My battalion, the Royal 

 Fusiliers, were the next to take over the place, to 

 protect this branch of the railway. 



I was out every morning before daybreak with 

 Colonel Driscoll, for he would visit the outposts 

 himself, and he trusted to a Ford car, as there was a 

 fairly good road running parallel with the railway 

 line. At a place where twenty Loyal Lanes, and an 

 officer had been ambushed and killed I kept my eyes 

 open, as I did not want the Germans to bag us too, 

 and noticed a movement some sixty yards from the 

 road where the bush ran out in a kind of peninsula. 

 The disturbance, I discovered, was being made by 

 a herd of elephants. 



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