-* Elephant-Hunting 



the tracks, a whispered word exchanged between us now 

 and again. Though he may not count upon getting at 

 his quarry for six or eight hours, yet every hour in such 

 cases as this intensifies the hunter's suspense. Perhaps 

 the elephants, feeling themselves safe, will have stopped 

 to feed. In that case it will be possible to get at them 

 by midday! There are always such possibilities. In 



ORGEICH, MY TAXIDERMIST, AND ALL THE CARRIERS AT WORK PREPARING 

 AN ELEPHANT-SKIN 



our case, however, this did not happen, and the herd 

 kept on its way. Hour after hour goes by, the arid, 

 barren desert, without a sign of life on it, unrolling 

 itself monotonously before us in its unchanging line hill 

 after hill rising before us in the distance only to disappear 

 again behind us as we move on and on. The dreariness 

 and loneliness of Nyika combine with the intense heat 

 to sap the energy of even the most strenuous ; but we 



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