JAUNTS IN THE JUNGLE. 87 



room. This he built himself at the distance of about 

 twenty yards from his dwelling-house ; and it con- 

 tained most of his trophies. 



It was a large square building : on either side of 

 the doorway stood two huge elephants' heads, 

 bleached as white as rain and sun could make them, 

 and no doubt a source of terror to the unsophisticated 

 little Niggers of the neighbourhood. 



The interior was fancifully decorated with twelve 

 pair of splendid elephants' tusks ; whilst the tushes 

 formed various useful articles of furniture for keeping 

 the doors open, or keeping down in its place a 

 mosaic of carpeting of the skins of elk, deer, and 

 bears ; and then the elephants' tails (that in the 

 absence of tusks had been brought home as trophies) 

 which lay in admired confusion, here, there, and 

 everywhere ! verily they would have re-tailed a 

 "wilderness of elephants !" 



But to see that room in its glory, when a party, 

 having reached so far on their journey to or from the 

 chief scene of elephant slaughter, had arrived to 

 spend a day or two with its owner before or after 

 they took him as their guide and participator in the 

 object of their pursuit ! 



We have perhaps experienced in merry England 

 (would it were merrier !) the inexpressible delight we 

 feel at the hospitable board of a fellow sportsman after 

 a good day's work ; but it is nothing to what we feel 

 when in the companionship of those with whom our 



