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dangerous — Bushmen's method of killing these animals — Poisoned 

 arrows and dogs — Uses made of the skins — The hartebeest — Several 

 species — Fine texture of coats — Peculiarity of the skull — Vast herds 

 often met with — The inquisitiveness of these animals — Indifference 

 to thirst — The sommering gazelle — Very common in Somaliland — 

 A herd of one thousand — Peculiar characteristic — Variety in shape 

 of horns — Subject to parasitical maggots — Flesh uneatable 



CHAPTER XXIII 



The Girnook or Waller gazelle — Whore found — A giraSe-like antelope — 

 Extraordinary length of neck — Small herds — Difficult to approach — 

 Advantages of a long neck — Halt at Hargesa — March continued — 

 Arrive at Arabsea — Our zareba at night — A lion prowling around — 

 We hear but cannot see him — The lion's call — Next morning search — 

 Marked down — Beating through the grass — My first lion — A splendid 

 specimen — Lions and tigers compared — Difference in skulls — Game 

 plentiful — Two more lions sighted — Gallop in pursuit — A savage 

 charge — Chased for one hundred yards — I shoot the lion — In pursuit 

 of the other — Crouched in a patch of grass — A snap-shot — My third 

 Hon — Raiding Somalis met with — A lioness and cubs — I shoot the 

 mother — Escape of the cubs — Man-eating lions common — A woman 

 carried off — Tracking up the man-eater — I faU to locate him — Shoot 

 a cock ostrich — Bushmen wonderful trackers — A hunter killed by a 

 wild elephant — Torn limb from limb — Too light a rifle — Difference 

 between Asiatic and African elephants — Latter superior in size — A 

 herd of a hundred — Most dangerous of African game — Tenacity of 

 life extraordinary — Skull curiously protected — The temple shot 

 preferable — Not always successful — A male and female wounded — 

 Curious results of shots from 8-bore Paradox 



CHAPTER XXIV 



We strike camp — Arrive in Elephant Country — An attempted mutiny 

 in camp — One black sheep in the flock — Armed literally to the 

 teeth — Alarming situation — Drastic measures necessary — I threaten 

 to shoot the ring-leader — A critical moment — Cocking my rifle turns 

 the scale — Order restored — Jungles teeming with game — Herd of 

 elephants reported — Preparation for the attack — In the midst of 

 the herd — Shoot one of them — Habe-Awal and Gadabarsi horsemen 

 surround the herd — Jungle alive with elephants — I kill five bulls 

 and one cow — Fine haul of tusks — Continue hunt next morning — 

 At unpleasantly close quarters — Under the elephant's trunk — Saved 

 by standing still — The elephant moves off — A parting shot in the 

 ribs — Follow up and finish her — Shoot another buU — Bivouac for 

 the night — Lion heard calling — News of a large bull — Found and 

 wounded — A determined charge — Retires into a jungle — At bay — 

 I hit him again — Another charge — I am chased and nearly caught — 

 I give him the slip — Return to camp — Take up tracks next day — 

 Found dead — Move camp — Six elephants bagged one day — Charged 

 by a cow elephant — A Somali attracts her attention — She chases 

 him — He is caught and killed instantly — Pounded beyond recogni- 

 tion — I kill the elephant — We try, but fail to capture the calf . 



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