GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



then for him to use. One day my husband put 

 some water m an empty whisky bottle. Perhaps 

 there were some dregs of the spirit left ; anyhow it 

 seemed to get into the old man's head, for it made 

 him very merry and he smacked his lips and much 

 enjoyed taking a pull, then sticking the cork in 

 again, as a child would. That bottle and the 

 picture were carried by him for days as well as his 

 load. 



When we were eating our meals, or when I was 

 dressing in the early morning, he always modestly 

 kept his eyes turned in the opposite direction, al- 

 though at other times they hardly ever left our 

 direction. He and I held long conversations, and I 

 began to think myself quite a wit, so well did he 

 appreciate my feeble jokes. 



The following morning we, as usual, went ofiF 

 early, still along the base of the hills, over numerous 

 elephant tracks, some appearing quite fresh. Pre- 

 sently we heard an elephant quite near us, a most 

 thrilling sound, as it howled an alarm. My hus- 

 band, followed by his orderly, went after it, up a 

 densely wooded hill, through jungle to the top and 

 round. Evidently by the tracks looking smaller 

 they must have changed and left the large elephant 

 and followed a smaller. He took them up almost 

 a perpendicular incline, close and stuffy among the 

 trees. They had to rest, and so, evidently, did the 

 elephant, and he fanned himself with leaves and 



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