CHAPTER XXXIV 



A FEW DAYS' HUNTING 



AFTER some days of promiscuous hunting, during 

 which I had managed to get several fine heads, 

 including sable and roan antelopes, a leopard, an 

 eland, and one or two elephants, I arrived, one 

 pitch-dark night, at a little village on the Luhan- 

 yando stream, and being thoroughly tired and 

 feverish into the bargain, decided to stay there till 

 morning. . In the middle of the night, I was 

 awakened by a noise as if an army of dancing 

 dervishes had invaded the village, and, on inquiring 

 the cause of the hubbub, learned that the natives 

 were shouting and beating drums to scare away 

 some elephants that were having a ' night out ' in 

 the matama corn. This pandemonium failed to 

 have any other effect than keeping me awake, and 

 the marauders continued their feast until an hour or 

 so before dawn, when they felt that it was advisable 

 to depart. 



At break of day, we rose, and, going into the 



shambas, which looked as if they had been visited 



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