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GAME-LAWS — UYENAS 
gavo us a view of tho chaso, and uttorod loud prayers for 
success in tho combat. I admired tho dovout belief they 
ah possessed in tho actual existence of unseen beings, and 
prayed that they might yot know that benignant One who 
viows us all as his own. My own people, who are rather 
a degraded lot, remarked to mo, as I came up, “ God gave 
it to us. Ho said to the old beast, 1 Go up thoro : men ai o 
oome who will kill and cat you.’ ” These remarks are quoted 
to givo tho reader an idea of tho nativo mode of expression 
As wo wore now in the country of stringont game-laws, 
wo wero obliged to send all the way back to Nyampungo, 
to givo information to a certain person who had been loft 
thero by the real owner of this district to watch over his 
property, tho owner himself living near tho Zambesi. Tho 
side upon which tho elephant fell had a short, broken tusk; 
the upper one, which was ours, was largo and thick. Tho 
Banyai remarked on our good luck. The men sent to giv’o 
notice came back lato in tho afternoon of the following day. 
They brought a basket of corn, a fowl, and a fow strings 
of handsome beads, as a sort of thank-offering for our 
having killod it on their land, and said they had thanked 
tho Barimo besides for our success, adding, “ Thero it is ; 
eat it and bo glad.” Had wo begun to cut it up before we 
got this permission, wo should have lost tho whole. Tlioy 
brought a largo party to oat their half, and they dividod it 
with ns in a friendly way. My men were delighted with 
tho feast, though, by lying unopened a wholo day, the 
carcass was pretty far gone. An astonishing number o( 
hyenas collected round and kept up a loud laughter for 
two wholo nights. Some of them do make a very good 
imitation of a laugh. I asked my men what tho hyenas 
were laughing at, as thoy usually givo animals credit for a 
share of intelligence. Thoy said that thoy wero laughing 
becauso wo could not tako tho wholo, and that thoy would 
have plenty to eat as well as we. 
On coming to tho part where the elephant was slain, we 
passed through grass so tall that it reminded me of that iD 
