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a herd of elephants, and one of them gave him chase 

 for some time, until his horse managed to distance his 

 pursuer. Both Coke and Gumming also shot elephants, 

 and the former on one occasion rode close to a herd of 

 from one hundred and fifty to two hundred, and suc- 

 ceeded in bagging one of them. Several lions were 

 seen, but Coke only was fortunate enough to kill one. 

 They all agree in saying that far more game is to be 

 found near the Hor Mehetepe than lower down the 

 Settite. They found the Hor dry for three miles 

 above its junction with the Settite, but then they came 

 to a pool which proved to be a very favourite haunt of 

 the elephant and rhinoceros. Cumming almost walked 

 on to two sleeping rhinoceros, and dropped one after 

 another with a right-and-left, and one day he killed 

 three elephants. 



We have again paid a visit to Mr. Cohen's live stock, 

 and saw several new additions. Amongst these are 

 two young lions, which played about the yard like 

 kittens, and were more friendly, for they did not attempt 

 to scratch or otherwise show their disapproval of being 

 handled by strangers. 



Mr. Cohen is now only waiting until he can collect 

 fifty or sixty camels to take a large portion of his 

 zoological collection to Souakim, en route for Europe, 

 and after landing at Hamburg he will visit many of the 



