A BEAD ELEPHANT. 



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"October i$th. — Soon after 7 a.m. started with 

 boys to hunt. . . Makwebani found the carcass of an 

 elephant killed a few days ago. The two teeth — one 

 broken, but as heavy as the other — weighed together 



BIRDS NESTS. 



20 lbs., as I found afterwards. The boys rushed to 

 the carcass, and were soon at work dismembering it. 

 It may be one of Nelson's, but my boys think it died 

 before Sunday (the day Nelson killed his). A great 

 many kites flew sweeping round. It was a regular 

 scene, such as one sees in pictures, the Kaffirs at 

 work cutting off trunk and feet and strips of flesh. 

 It was a cow - elephant, and vultures and other 



great numbers along the banks of rivers, and in marshy places, affixed 

 to the rushes. 



