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CHAPTEE XV. 

 Take leave of Sicomy — Digging for Water — The Elephant's Fonntaia 

 again — ^A wounded Boan Antelope bays in the Water, and kills my 

 Dogs right and left — Sicomy's Camp again — We march through a 

 faeautiiiil Valley — Curious Instinct of the Rhinoceros Bird — ^A mighty 

 Bull Elephant shot after a hard Conflict — Mutchuisho's Attentions 

 more charitable than pleasant — Cutting up an Elephant — A strange 

 Scene^Baking the Flesh — Primitive Tobacco-pipes — Biltongue Fes- 

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CHAPTER XVI. 

 Elephant Spooring with the Natives — The Mystic Dice — Hunt in a 

 Wait.a-bit Thorn Cover — Romantic Gorge in the Mountains — Sabie 

 —Ancient Elephant Path — Ludicrous Native Signal — A noble Bull 

 Elephant slain — Isaac, my Interpreter, dismissed — ^A Lioness bagged 

 at one Shot — Drunkenness and Disorder in Camp— My Manner of 

 taking the Field after the larger Game — Sicomy's Followers desert 

 me. 36-4 



