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still furious insects and seen for myself that nothing but a pool 
of blood remained to show where she had fallen. I knew it 
was useless to follow her, as she had clearly been only stunned ; 
so, word having been brought me that some of the herd had 
just been seen on the far side of the valley, we made our way 
through the bush towards the open beyond. But just before 
emerging from the forest we came across another little lot, and, 
my luck still holding, I scored another right and left—the 
third to-day—at a young bull and a cow. Running on, I was 
able to get in another shot, at a big fellow, but bungled it 
somehow and he went off with the rest. 
I now started with the man who had brought me word 
about some others he had seen ; but we were unable to find 
them, and after wasting some time we went towards some 
natives who were standing on a rise in the direction of their 
shambas, and whose gesticulations and beckonings seemed to 
indicate that they could see elephants. Sure enough, on 
reaching the high ground where they were, we found that a 
small herd was visible in a rather open part of the bush. But 
the wind was blowing towards them, and although I made a 
detour to avoid going down wind, they had already scented 
danger before I reached the place, and were retreating. I got 
a running shot, but the scrub was too high to allow a clear 
view, and there was no result. Following them up, and 
occasionally sending a man up a tree to survey the jungle, I 
soon found where some had halted once more. I climbed a 
tree myself to note their position, and made them out standing 
in a clump in a little opening. Having got up pretty close, 
and finding it impossible to see for the high scrub, I climbed 
the broken bough of a large tree which happened to lean at a 
convenient angle against the trunk, reaching to the ground at 
the end. Getting high up on to it, I got a good view of the 
elephants, and waited some time for the largest to give me a 
chance; but he persistently kept behind the others, which were 
huddled together, and finally moved into tall scrub, where he 
