+> The African Elephant 



the mountain is enveloped in rain-clouds, and could 

 never be colonised by either natives or Europeans, while 

 the possibilities of existence for Europeans there, as all 

 over East Africa, seem up to the present day to be nil. 

 In former days an elephant-hunt was very different 

 from what it is now. A few mounted men would fasten 



" FUNDI," ARMED NATIVES PERMITTED TO HUNT BIG GAME. THESE GENTRY 

 HAD BEEN AFTER ELEPHANTS AND RHINOCEROSES. THEY CAME TO ME 

 TO BEG FOR POWDER, HAVING RUN SHORT, BUT THEY HAD TO DO 

 WITHOUT ! 



on the heels of the herd, and when the elephants bore 

 down upon them other riders would divert them from 

 the object of the attack. By these methods whole herds 

 were often destroyed. 



The elephant has now almost disappeared from South 

 Africa, with the exception of a few small herds in very 

 unhealthy spots and a number of protected individuals in 



