CHAPTEE XXX. 



HUNTING AFTER BIG GAME. 



Mashoona Eice Elephants A Holiday upset Euby willing Hints about 

 Treatment of Horses Charge of Buffaloes Fate of the Bush-people 

 Danger of Buffaloes A Tusker brought to Grief A Pugnacious Elephant 

 Seemingly he won't Die Killed at Last The Guide's Success He 

 Shoots a Ehinoceros Charged by the Brute A Heavy Kick and Shot 

 Bullock used as a Charger Experiments to ride him Another Shot at 

 Buffaloes A Match for the Lion Eunning Down an Eland How it is Done 

 Damoiselle Cranes Massara Bushmen Our Line of March Man with 

 Three Wives The Youngest Wife Her Speed Her Favourite Delicacy 

 Her Visits Bush-people's Appreciation of Snuff An Excellent Vegetable 

 The Probable Fate of the Massaras My Levee of Sick Natives How I 

 manage to prescribe for them. 



I WAS sitting at breakfast, and a very good one it was, 

 for I had curried stein-buck and some admirable Ma- 

 shoona rice the finest rice I have ever eaten and as 

 we had plenty of meat in the camp, I had resolved to 

 take a holiday. Euby had eaten her mealies, and the 

 dogs had had their grub, and everything looked as if 

 there were no probability of the ordinary routine of life 

 being disturbed, when that fellow Umganey, whom I 

 like so much, came rushing up with the news that there 

 were elephants close by. 



" Where and how did you find out this ? " I inquired. 



" From a Massara he see them this morning," was 

 the answer. 



So there was nothing for it but to have Euby driven 

 up and saddled, and go in pursuit, thus giving up my 

 intended day of rest for one of more than ordinary toil. 



