26 ADVENTURES IN SOUIH APRICA. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Turn my Wagons toward the Colony— A Troop gf Elephants in Indian 

 File— Splendid Sport among them — Two of them break their Tusks 

 in falhng — The Eainy Season conamences — Erection of a Bothy — 

 The gigantic Nwana-tree — Sicomy'a Mountain Kraal — Four of his 

 Subjects become my Servants — Corriebely — The Natives astonished 

 by my finding a Mine of Lead — Elephant shooting — Leave the Land 

 of Elephants — BoOtlonamy — Terrific Thunder-storm. 



Having so far succeeded in the object of my expedi- 

 tion, and both my wagons being now heavily laden with 

 thetusks of elephants and a large collection of the spoils 

 of the case, with a number of other interesting curios- 

 ities, I at length resolved once more to turn my face to- 

 ward the distant dwellings of my countrymen. On the 

 23d of September, however, although harassed in my 

 mind, and fearing to lose all my horses if I did not 

 speedily forsake the country, I yielded to my inclination, 

 ^ and the persuasions of Mutchuisho, once more to take 

 the field, and follow the spoor of two bull elephants, re- 

 ported to have visited a distant fountain. Before start- 

 ing I gave Johannus my phlegme, and a hasty lesson in 

 the art of bleeding, with instructions to bleed copiously 

 any of my stud evincing the slightest symptoms of dis- 

 temper. We held an easterly course, and at sundown 

 on the second day I bagged a white rhinoceros and a 

 fine old bull elephant, beside whose carcass I bivouack- 

 ed as usual. On the forenoon of the 25th I saddled up 

 and held for camp, accompaniecj, by only one attendant. 

 It was a glorious day, with a cloudy sky, and the 

 wind'blew fresh off the Southern Ocean. Having rid- 



