-* Elephant-Hunting 



in the darkness to the body ot the last-killed elephant, in 

 order to open its stomach and drink the indescribably 

 stinking liquid inside. Then we lay clown again in our 

 camp, suddenly to be awakened at about nine o'clock by 

 my experienced old " Fund! " springing U p and giving out 

 the cry, in low tones, " Tembo, Bwana ! Tembo ! " 



And, sure enough, there were the twenty-one remaining 



THE KI.KI'HANTS, OVER TWENTY IN NUMBER, HAD MADE THEIR WAY 

 ACROSS THE liED OK A STREAM, NOW DRIED UP 



elephants, looking like monstrous ghosts in the moonlight, 

 moving past us with their noiseless trot in the direction 

 of the hills they had left ! 



The elephants were clearly striving to make their way 

 as quickly as possible to their mountain thickets. My 

 men had sprung up at once, and exerted themselves as 

 quick as lightning to extinguish our small fire by tearing 

 out the burning pieces of wood, knowing by experience 



