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enumerate the quantity of the game killed. With the 

 exception of killing elephants and ostriches for the sake 

 of their ivory and feathers, I endeavoured not to slay 

 anything that was not required ; however, in thus 

 limiting the slaughter I was not always successful, for 

 the guide, who was an excellent hunter and very fair 

 shot, had had the loan of one of my eight-bores, and 

 with it dealt out, I fear, terrible destruction. At night 

 he frequently came and tumbled into the wagon a tusk 

 or two, or shoved into the tent a bundle of feathers, 

 my share of his success in his hunt. 



Thus hours drifted into days and days into weeks ; 

 from one place to another we shifted our encampment, 

 but still the pot, or rather the flesh was on the fire. 

 Elephants now commenced to get scarce, for these wily 

 animals having been so much hunted, betook themselves 

 to the hills adjoining to the eastward, where the tsetse 

 abounded, and pursuit on horseback was impossible. 



From my wagon, soon after break of day, I have 

 seen numerous varieties of game within a quarter of a 

 mile, any man who could handle a gun fairly might 

 have gone forth and dealt destruction in the ranks of 

 each. 



If I had had a companion, one to whom I could 

 talk, whether he were black or white, I should have been 

 satisfied ; but I was alone, veritably alone, and with 

 attendants about me who regarded me as a milk cow, 

 the cow to be sacrificed as soon as nature prevented 

 it from giving a supply of the lacteal fluid. In spite of 

 this I determined on leaving my wagon for a time to 

 have a hunt on foot into the fly country. 



