CHAPTER IV. 

 HUNTING ELEPHANT AND OTHER GAME. 



A good locality for elephants A large race of elephants Stretching skins 

 of game The spoor of three elephants found One a very large one 

 Good tracking Damage done by elephants Easily killed with small 

 bores The largest bags of elephants in a day The use of anthills to. 

 spy from An elephant lost through the carelessness of a native Lose 

 a shot at moving elephants Mistake of firing uncertain shots Excite- 

 ment of elephant shooting Hot weather Try a different direction 

 The spoor of a good tusker found Follow him and find him in a bad 

 bit of country Hit him, and he runs and falls dead A good tusk 

 Old wounds in elephant Actions of an elephant shot in the lungs 

 Elephants die hard Measurement of the cavity of an elephant's brain 

 Size of elephant's feet Position of elephant's heart Good quality 

 ivory found in Nyasaland and adjacent countries Bad smell of dead 

 elephants after lying in the sun Noise made by opening elephant's 

 stomach Natives cut themselves A lively night with hyaenas Weird 

 noises made by hyaenas I sight a small herd of buffalo and see a herd 

 of sable antelopes Central Africa a network of paths "Closing" 

 paths Usual time of year for grass burning Destruction caused by 

 grass fires Hot ground Shoot a kudu bull Carry off elephant meat 

 Another trip Two sable antelopes shot Wound a bull and lose it 

 Elephant scared Meet a white man and his wife Two eland bulls 

 shot Fat got from elands Natives- dirty butchers Noting position 

 of vital organs in game Change camp and see spoor of lion and 

 buffalo Young eland killed by lion Extreme heat at end of dry 

 season Go after hippo Shoot one Time taken by hippo to rise 

 when shot Four hippos shot in Zambesi River Crocodiles in the Bua 

 River Go after game and find it wild A tropical storm Damage 

 done to native crops by elephants, hippos, and other game The 

 appetite of elephants Elands and pigs destructive " Garden " 

 elephants dangerous animals Poachers of game Boers great 

 destroyers of animal life Reserves for game Connection of game 

 and sleeping sickness Impossibility of exterminating game in Central 

 Africa. 



ON September 16, 1912, after having engaged a few carriers,. 

 I started off for Maponda's village, and Kamwendo, the good 

 elephant spoorer, arranged to meet me there on the evening 



