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ELEPHANT-HUNTING. 
but came near no one except a man who wore a piece of 
cloth on his shoulders. Bright clothing is always dangerous 
in thoso cases. She charged throe or four times, and, ex- 
cept in tho first instance, never went farthor than ono 
hundred yards. She often stood after she had crossed a 
rivulet, and faced tho men, though she received frosh 
spears. It was by this process of spoaring and loss of 
blood that she was killed; for at last, making a short 
charge, she staggered round and sank down dead in a 
kneeling posture. I did not see the whole hunt, having 
been tempted away by both sun and moon appearing 
unclouded. I turned from tho spectacle of tho destruction 
of noblo animals, which might bo made so useful in Africa, 
with a feeling of sickness; and it was not relieved by tho 
recollection that tho ivory was mine, though that was the 
case. I regrotted to sco them killeu, and more especially 
the young ono, tho meat not being at all necossary at that 
time ; but it is right to add that I did not fool sick when 
my own blood was up tho day before. Wo ought, perhaps, 
to judge thoso deeds moro leniently in which wo ourselvos 
have no temptation to engage. Had I not boon previously 
guilty of doing tho vory samo thing, I might havo prided 
myself on suporior humanity when I oxporicncod ths 
nausea in viewing my men kill thoso two. 
Passing the rivulet Losito, and through tho ranges ol 
hills, wo reached tno residence of Somalembuo on the 18th. 
His village is situated at tho bottom of ranges through 
which tho Kafue find9 a passage, and close to the bank 
of that river. Tho Kafue, somotimes called Kahowho or 
Bashukulompo River, is upward of two hundred yards wide 
here, and full of hippopotami, the young of which may be 
soon perched on tbo necks of their dams. At this point wo 
had reached about tho samo level as Linyanti. 
Somalombuo paid us a visit soon after our arrival, and 
said that he had often heard of mo. and, now that ho had 
the pleasure of seeing mo, he fearce. that I should sloop the 
first night at his village hungry. This was considered the 
