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and tossing his trunk incessantly, in elejmantine fashion. 

 She kept flapping her ears and wagging her tail, as if in 

 the height of enjoyment. Then hegan the piping of her 

 enemies, which was performed hy Mowing into a tube, or 

 the hands closed together, as boys do into a key. They 

 call out to attract the animal's attention : — 



" chief! chief! we have come to kill you. 



chief! chief! many more will die besides you," &c. 

 " The gods have said it," &c. &c. 



Both animals expanded their ears and listened, then left 

 their bath as the crowd rushed toward them. The little 

 one ran forward toward the end of the valley, but, seeing 

 the men there, returned to his dam. She placed herself on 

 the danger-side of her calf, and passed her proboscis over it 

 again and again, as if to assure it of safety. She frequently 

 looked back to the men, who kept up an incessant shouting, 

 singing, and piping; then looked at her young one and 

 ran after it, sometimes sideways, as if her feelings were 

 divided between anxiety to protect her offspring and desire 

 to revenge the temerity of her persecutors. The men kept 

 about a hundred yards in her rear, and some that distance 

 from her flanks, and continued thus until she was obliged 

 to cross a rivulet. The time spent in descending and get- 

 ting up the opposite bank allowed of their coming up to 

 the edge and discharging their spears at about twenty 

 yards' distance. After the first discharge she appeared with 

 her sides red with blood, and, beginning to flee for her own 

 life, seemed to think no more of her young. I had pre- 

 viously sent off Sekwebu with orders to spare the calf. It 

 ran very fast, but neither young nor old ever enter into a 

 gallop : their quickest pace is only a sharp walk. Before 

 Sekwebu could reach them, the calf had taken refuge in 

 the water, and was killed. The pace of the dam gradually 

 became slower. She turned with a shriek of rage, and 

 made a furious charge back among the men. They 

 vanished at right angles to her course, or sideways, and, 

 as she ran straight on, she went through the whole party 



