-* Stalking- Kxpeditions in the Nyika. 



at last I have abjured it. It is too painful for the 

 sportsman to have to proceed like a murderer for the 

 sake of his own safety, yet if he did not he would 

 unquestionably go to his certain death in these thickets ! 

 Elephants enjoy a kind ot indirect protection, which 

 even the expert would not suspect. It happens in this 

 way. The rhinoceroses which, according to all the 



I GOT MY MEN TO KILL UP WITH THORN-KRANCHES AND TWIGS MANY 

 OF THE MURDEROUS PIT-FALLS IN WHICH THE NATIVES ENTRAP 

 THE ANIMALS 



natives, are by no means friendly towards elephants 

 continually baffle the elephant-stalker by their frequent 

 presence in mountain-forests of the desert. For a single 

 shot thunders through the hills and breaks into manifold 

 echoes, and this is enough to set the wily elephants 

 moving about noiselessly in all directions and setting- 

 many miles between themselves and their pursuers. 



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