182 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



The result of Baker's shot could not be determined that night, 

 but early in the morning a short search discovered the elephant 

 standing about ten yards in the grass jungle, so nearly dead on 

 its feet that it fell over upon making an attempt to move, and 

 died. It was so large that Baker took its measurement, and 

 found it to be ten feet six and one-half inches in height. 



The word being given, a crowd of waiting natives rushed upon 

 the huge carcass, and about three hundred people were soon 

 attacking it with knives and lances. About a dozen men were 

 working inside as though in a tunnel ; they had chosen this 

 locality as being near to the fat, which was greatly coveted. 



A WILD BOAR. 



A FEW days after killing the elephant Baker fired the grass 

 and then strolled over the burnt ground in quest of game. 

 Although elephants were plentiful, not a single one could be 

 found, and he was returning to his hut greatly disappointed, 

 when there suddenly sprang out from a hole in his pathway a 

 wild boar and sow, and the former viciously attacked him. It 

 was a moment of extreme peril, but quick action and a steady 

 aim saved his life. He fired at the vicious beast and killed it 

 almost at the muzzle of the gun. The natives were soon apprized 

 of the lucky shot, and as they value pork above all other meat, 

 the boar was very quickly cut up and a feast prepared. 



It is a singular fact that the wild pigs of the Obbo country 

 live underground ; the manis, or great scaled ant-eater, burrows 

 in a considerable excavation ; these habitations the pigs enter, 

 dispossess the manis, and, enlarging the retreat, make it their 

 abode. 



DEPARTURE FOR KAMRASl's COUNTRY. 



JANUARY had now arrived, and though enfeebled by fever and 

 seriously inconvenienced by the loss of his pack-animals, Baker 

 determined to proceed south in quest of the great lake which he 

 believed formed the chief source of the Nile. Reports which 

 Ibrahim received from Kamrasi's kingdom to the south, in 

 regard to the abundance of ivory there, prompted the Turk to 



