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him alive, though he seemed to get on all right on my 

 treatment of him for the first few days. 



He was on the friendliest terms with me within 

 forty-eight hours, and used to caress my beard and face 

 with his little trunk in the drollest way. It was a thousand 

 pities that the animal soon died. Thus ended both my 

 efforts. 



Another very serious mishap fell to my lot quite 



unexpectedly in November 1903. My caravan was making 

 a long and difficult march from hill to hill towards the 



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next drinking-place, and I, as usual, was at the head 

 of it. After we had been about four hours afoot, I brought 

 down two female antelopes. While some of my men were 

 busy cutting them up, having put down their burden (many 

 of them, however, were still straggling behind), I went 



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