CH. XVIII 



TERRIER V. ELEPHANT 



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During the forenoon of September i5th, 1909, at 

 Kitulika stream, a small tributary of the 

 Mbarangandu, I shot a couple of fine, big tuskers, 

 and the remaining one of the herd, decamping 

 and progressing in a semi-circle, came across my 

 carriers, who were following up about a mile 



TWO TUSKERS. THE SECOND JUST DISCERNIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND. 



behind. Getting their wind, he immediately turned 

 back on his tracks, which I was following, and, all 

 of a sudden, I heard him about a couple of hundred 

 yards off, forging his way through a thicket of long 

 grass and coming straight in my direction. As my 

 trackers and I were standing in a patch of country 

 free from vegetation, the grass having been 



