NATURAL HISTORY 303 



Adamawa and the country south of the Benue through 

 German Bornu that Hes between the Shari and Benue. 

 In April 1905 when I was carrying our boat-sections from 



A WATERBUCK 



Kaddai to the Kowa-Baga there were many elephants 

 frequenting the large belts by the Lake. 



In the Shari region, after leaving Fort Lamy, elephants 

 are to be found in the Baghirmi country ; but they are 

 continually shifting their quarters as they are much harried 

 by the natives, who hunt them on horseback with poisoned 

 spears which leave their heads buried in the animal, whose 

 tracks are then followed — sometimes for two days — to the 

 place where it eventually succumbs to the poison. 



In the country of the Bamingi elephants are plentiful 

 and continue so throughout the whole of the Shari -Ubangui 



