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as the herd numbered a hundred or so, but as he said 

 both those he had killed had poor ivory, I thought it a 

 pity to shoot any more. However, he over-persuaded 

 me and ultimately I went. He said he had found the 

 elephants in a belt of thick jungle, about 5 miles long by 

 less than half a mile wide, lying at the foot of some low 

 hills, on the other side of which was the river, and that 

 the herd were moving nearer camp when he left. We 

 then started out; and, while H. returned to the point where 

 he had fired, to look for a wounded animal, he sent me to 

 the centre of the belt, and B. to my right. \V., who 

 came in just as we were starting, with two fine lesser 

 kudu, he sent still further to the right. I started 

 off for my place and went right across the belt, but 

 saw nothing save old tracks. When I got into 

 the open again, I saw several natives standing by the 

 foot of a tree talking to two of their number perched up 

 in the branches. They could apparendy see something 

 away in H.'s direction. Soon after, we heard several 

 shots. A little later B. joined me, having found his part 

 of the jungle as bare of elephants as I had mine. More 

 shots were heard in H.'s direction, and then the natives 

 in the tree began gesticulating wildly, and we could see 

 the jungle waving about, as part of the herd stampeded 

 towards us. As B. had never had a shot at an elephant, 

 I insisted on his taking my chance and going after the 

 tuskers ; so he ran in, cut off the herd as it passed, and 

 succeeded in getting a bull, with very large tusks for 

 this part of the country. Meanwhile I started for camp, 

 but, seeing that some of the elephants B. had gone after 

 had again turned and were coming back, I decided to 



