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and tossing his trunk incessantly, in elephantine fashion. 
She kept flapping her ears and wagging her tail, as if in 
the height of onjoymont. Thon began the piping of hei 
enemies, which was performed by blowing into a tube, oi 
the hands closed together, as boys do into a koy. They 
cal 1 out to attract tho animal’s attention : — 
“ O chief 1 chief! we have come to kill you. 
0 chief! chief! many more will die besides you,” &o. 
“ The gods have said it,” &c. &c. 
Both animals expanded their cars and listenod, then loft 
their bath as tho crowd rushed toward them. Tho little 
one ran forward toward tho end of the valley, nut, seeing 
the men thcro, returned to his dam. She placed hersolf on 
tho danger-sido of her calf, and passed her proboscis over it 
again and again, as if to assuro it of safety. She frequently 
looked back to tho men, who kept up an incessant shouting, 
singing, and piping; then lookod at hor young ono and 
ran after it, sometimes sidoways, as if hor feelings woro 
divided betweon anxiety to protect her offspring and desiro 
to rovongo tho tomority of her persecutors. Tho men kept 
about a hundred yards in her rear, and somo that distance 
from her flanks, and continued thus until slio was obligod 
to cross a rivulet. The timo spent in descending and get- 
ting up tho opposito bank allowed of their coming up to 
the odgo and discharging their spears at about twenty 
yards’ distance. After tho 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 Sckwobu with orders to spare the calf. It 
ran very fast, but noithor young nor old over enter into a 
gallop : their quickest pace is only a sharp walk. Before 
Sekwcbu could reach them, tho calf had takon refuge in 
tho wator, and was killed. Tho paco of tho dam gradually 
became slower. She turned with a shriok of rage, and 
made a furious chargo back among tho men. They 
vanished at right angles to her course, or sideways, and, 
as sho ran straight on, she went through tho wholo party 
