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is a great help in directing a bullet for a killing shot. 

 Naturally, when a beast is lying on its side all the organs 

 mentioned will incline downwards with their weight, but a 

 very good idea can be got of their natural positions, anoT 

 this is a great help to good killing, and I advise young 

 sportsmen to study the matter. 



On the 8th I had a long walk round Matisi dambo, where 

 there was water, and near there I found the tracks of a 

 small bull and a cow elephant. These tracks I followed 

 for some distance until I found that the animals had joined 

 a small herd of cows, and as the bull, judging by his spoor, 

 was not worth shooting, I left them and did a long round 

 to look for the tracks of a bigger animal. 



After travelling many miles through some very rough, 

 thorny country, I again found the spoor of the same two 

 elephants, which I followed again for a short distance, 

 thinking that they might be joined by a bigger animal. 

 About midday, having seen nothing, and rinding I was not far 

 from camp, I made for it, and found lunch awaiting me. 



On this day the sun was scorching hot, and the ground 

 was covered with small, thorny bushes, which were very 

 hard on bare legs, and I arrived back with many scratches. 



As two men should not camp together, I left next 

 morning for Maponda's village, although, by the unwritten 

 rules of sport, it was Mr. Barns's duty to move on when he 

 found me in camp. However, Mrs. Barns was feeling 

 unwell, so I did the moving to save her the trouble and 

 exertion. 



On the eight miles' tramp to Maponda's I found the 

 night spoor of a lion on the path in some sand, but, when 

 he got on hard ground, no traces of his passage were 

 visible. I also saw the tolerably fresh spoor of a herd of 

 buffaloes, but I was not feeling quite fit enough to start 

 after them. Besides these tracks there was plenty of 

 eland and roan spoor about, and I saw some reedbuck and 

 a warthog, which all bolted before I could get a shot. 



On the loth I had a good try to find another 

 elephant, and did a round of a good twenty miles, and 



