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a variety of articles for sale. The majestic mountain, 

 Chipirone, to which we have given the name of Mount 

 Clarendon, now looms in sight, and further to the N.W. 

 the southern end of the grand Milanje range rises in the 

 form of an unfinished sphinx looking down on Lake 

 Shirwa. The Euo (16° 31' 0" S.) is said to have its 

 source in the Milanje mountains, and flows to the S.W., to 

 join the Shire some distance above Tingane's. A short 

 way beyond the Euo lies the Elephant marsh, or Nyanja 

 Mukulu, which is frequented by vast herds of these 

 animals. We believe that we counted eight hundred 

 elephants in sight at once. In the choice of such a strong- 

 hold, they have shown their usual sagacity, for no hunter 

 can get near them through the swamps. They now keep 

 far from the steamer ; but, when she' first came up, we 

 steamed into the midst of a herd, and some were shot 

 from the ship's deck. A single lesson was sufficient to 

 teach them that the steamer was a thing to be avoided ; 

 and at the first glimpse they are now off two or three 

 miles to the midst of the marsh, which is furrowed in 

 every direction by wandering branches of the Shire. A 

 fine young elephant was here caught alive, as he was 

 climbing up the bank to follow his retreating dam. "When 

 laid hold of, he screamed with so much energy that, to 

 escape a visit from the enraged mother, we steamed off, 

 and dragged him through the water by the proboscis. As 

 the men were holding his trunk over the gunwale, Monga, 

 a brave Makololo elephant-hunter, rushed aft, and drew 

 his knife across it in a sort of frenzy peculiar to the chase. 

 The wound was skilfully sewn up, and the young animal 

 soon became quite tame, but, unfortunately, the breathing 

 prevented the cut from healing, and he died in a few days 

 from loss of blood. Had he lived, and had we been able to 

 bring him home, he would have been the first African 

 elephant ever seen in England. The African male ele- 



