* Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



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 i^o to his certain death in these thickets! 

 Elephants enjoy a kind of indirect protection, which 

 even the expert would not suspect. It happens in this 

 wav. The rhinoceroses which, according to all the: 



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nalix'es, are by no means friendly towards elephants 

 continually battle the elephant-stalker by their frequent 

 presence in mountain-forest s of the desert. I'or 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 

 manv miles between themselves and their pursuers. 



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