2o8 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. 



camp about sundown after another hard day. I found two of my 

 Ndorobo friends in camp. Doubtless they had heard the firing 

 yesterday and surmised that there would be more elephants to 

 feast on. I told them they deserved no more meat, because they 

 had brought me no honey. It was always the understanding 

 that when they were living on my elephants they should keep 

 me supplied with this wholesome luxury. But they protested 

 they could find none here, and I believe they spoke the truth, 

 for I always found them liberally inclined when they had any ; 

 so I said they were welcome to go the next day and cut up 

 the elephants I had killed, on condition that they would search 

 for the one I had shot in the evening, which I felt convinced 

 could not go far. They were not slow to accept my offer, and 

 turned up in force before it was properly light in the morning, 

 on the strength of another feast being on the board. They 

 brought me a little honey ; all they had, they said. It was 

 but a tiny portion, but an acceptable addition to my rather 

 monotonous fare. Feeling a bit tired myself, and as there did 

 not seem much chance of finding any more elephants about 

 now, I sent Squareface and Juma with them to try and find 

 my lost elephant of the last day's hunt ; but they returned in 

 the evening without having found it. 



In consequence of Squareface having brought a report that 

 on his way back he had seen the fresh spoor of a herd going 

 down stream, I was off again as soon as light and tramped 

 straight down to our lower camp on the chance that it might 

 have stopped somewhere in that neighbourhood. However, I 

 could discover no fresh spoor at all, and though on the way 

 back we cut through the bush backwards and forwards at 

 intervals, crossing and recrossing the stream in all six times, 

 until we reached the locality of our camp again, we could find 

 no recent traces of elephants nor any spoor fresher than that 

 we had followed two days before. The same evening my men 

 returned from El Bogoi, but they brought no news of my 

 caravan, which I was now beginning to expect back from 



