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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
CHAP. 
discomfiture and numerous wounds by the bees, so that, though 
my next shot knocked down another cow, she was only 
wounded and got up again directly ; with the second barrel, 
however, I felled her again and left her for dead. My rifle 
got quite hot after these five shots in quick succession. 
I now sat down for a short rest and a drink of gruelly 
native beer (very refreshing and sustaining when one is hot 
‘ ‘ The natives stick these tubs in trees for the accommodation of wild bees, by which 
simple means they secure a regular supply of honey.” 
and empty), while my gunbearer and I pulled the stings out of 
each other’s face and neck, the second one meanwhile going 
to cut off the tails of the elephants I had just shot. The last 
one they could not find, and brought me word that it had 
gone ; but as it had fallen just under the bee tree, I thought 
they had perhaps been afraid to venture to the right spot, and 
was not satisfied until I had once more run the gauntlet of the 
