With Flashlight -and Rifle -* 



of them to our destination by the time darkness came on. 

 The other remained lying out on the velt. 



With difficulty we got to the water late in the night, 

 chiefly by dint of setting fire to the dried-up velt 

 several times on the way, and thus managing to see 

 where we were going. Next morning, when succour was 

 sent to the man left behind, it arrived too late. The 

 unfortunate fellow had been killed by rhinoceroses during" 

 the night, and then been entirely torn to pieces by lions. 

 So we gathered from their tracks. His body lay on a 

 deeply trodden rhinoceros-path. 



It should be borne in mind that at this time all my 

 carriers were good experienced men, carefully selected. 

 In spite of this, here was a mishap which it was quite 

 impossible for me to ward off. On other occasions it 

 has often happened that men from my caravan, having 

 lost their way, have had to sleep out in the open, either 

 up in trees or upon the ground, but without coming to 

 any harm. 



No sportsman who has hunted the elephant much in 

 Africa has got through without some serious misadven- 

 tures ; many have been trampled upon and have paid 

 for their boldness with their lives. 



The hunting of the African elephant, when undertaken 

 by oneself and under sportsman-like conditions, is an enter- 

 prise to which in the long run only a few men are equal. 

 Many elephants have been killed not in this way, but 

 with the help of the Askaris. I have seen photographs 

 representing a number of young elephants quite small, 

 some of them slaughtered in this way, with a group 



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