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shake. The faithful Simba and myself were going 

 like the wind, and just cleared their right flank com- 

 fortably. I wasn't too happy personally. I hate 

 running in rather long grass with a heavy rifle, and 

 I dislike the noise an elephant makes when he's cross. 



They didn't wait after their futile charge nor did 

 we but broke up at once into small bodies, thirty to 

 forty strong, and started cruising round looking for us. 

 We just managed to keep the wind right, but we had 

 to go all out, and every time a posse of them crossed 

 our track they stopped and yelled. We were both 

 of us pretty done by the time we got out of the 

 beaten zone. 



The elephants hunted about for half an hour or so 

 and then pushed off southwards, and we saw them 

 no more." 



Lord Hindlip had some exciting moments while hunt- 

 ing elephants in British East Africa. The following is 

 from his record of sport and travel. 1 " After march- 

 ing for some five and a half hours next day we were 

 waiting near water for the caravan to come up, when 

 Jensen's gunbearer, who had strolled on a short 

 distance, came back in a very excited condition and 

 reported a herd of elephants, and presently one or two 

 came into view in the distance. By this time the head 

 of the safari appeared, and after securing a few more 

 cartridges and leaving Lady Hindlip in charge, with 

 orders to keep strict silence and pitch no tents while 

 anything was in sight, I started in pursuit with the three 

 Somali shikaris. For some time we were at fault, for, 

 as we found out afterwards, the herd had divided, and 

 we did not know which tracks to follow. In about an 



1 See Bibliography, 2. 



