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still furious insects and seen for myself that nothing but a pool 

 of blood remained to show where she had fallen. I knew it 

 was useless to follow her, as she had clearly been only stunned ; 

 so, word having been brought me that some of the herd had 

 just been seen on the far side of the valley, we made our way 

 through the bush towards the open beyond. But just before 

 emerging from the forest we came across another little lot, and, 

 my luck still holding, I scored another right and left — the 

 third to-day — at a young bull and a cow. Running on, I was 

 able to get in another shot, at a big fellow, but bungled it 

 somehow and he went off with the rest. 



I now started with the man who had brought me word 

 about some others he had seen ; but we were unable to find 

 them, and after wasting some time we went towards some 

 natives who were standing on a rise in the direction of their 

 shambas, and whose gesticulations and beckonings seemed to 

 indicate that they could see elephants. Sure enough, on 

 reaching the high ground where they were, we found that a 

 small herd was visible in a rather open part of the bush. But 

 the wind was blowing towards them, and although I made a 

 detour to avoid going down wind, they had already scented 

 danger before I reached the place, and were retreating. I got 

 a running shot, but the scrub was too high to allow a clear 

 view, and there was no result. Following them up, and 

 occasionally sending a man up a tree to survey the jungle, I 

 soon found where some had halted once more. I climbed a 

 tree myself to note their position, and made them out standing 

 in a clump in a little opening. Having got up pretty close, 

 and finding it impossible to see for the high scrub, I climbed 

 the broken bough of a large tree which happened to lean at a 

 convenient angle against the trunk, reaching to the ground at 

 the end. Getting high up on to it, I got a good view of the 

 elephants, and waited some time for the largest to give me a 

 chance ; but he persistently kept behind the others, which were 

 huddled together, and finally moved into tall scrub, where he 



