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and fetch his family to commence cutting up the meat. The 

 whole community of Ndorobos now shifted their quarters and 

 went and camped near the carcase, so that they might be near 

 their work ; and for several da}'s I could not get any of them 

 to go out hunting with me, so much taken up were they with 

 feasting and drying for future use strips of meat and even 

 pieces of the skin. For when pushed by hunger, as very 

 frequently happens, they are glad to fall back upon old bits of 

 elephant or rhinoceros hide, which they cook and eat. It is 





" t)ne would not have known he was dead." 



a curious sight to see a party of these people, men, women, and 

 children, swarming around, upon, and inside the carcase of an 

 elephant, like ants with a big beetle, fairly wallowing in gore 

 and thoroughly enjoying themselves. 



I was not myself averse to a couple of days' spell, having 

 fever on me ; for though I am so thoroughly salted, from many 

 bygone encounters with this enemy of African travellers during 

 long years of wandering in unhealthy regions, as to be so far 

 fever-proof that I am never laid up or incapacitated for any 

 needful exertion, I still feel the attacks to the extent of their 



