V 
NDOROBO ELEPHANT-HUNTING 
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and fetch his family to commence cutting up the meat. The 
whole community of Ndorobos now shifted their quarters and 
went and camped near the carcase, so that they might be near 
their work ; and for several days I could not get any of them 
to go out hunting with me, so much taken up were they with 
feasting and drying for future use strips of meat and even 
pieces of the skin. For when pushed by hunger, as very 
frequently happens, they are glad to fall back upon old bits of 
elephant or rhinoceros hide, which they cook and eat. It is 
“ One-would not have known he was dead.” 
a curious sight to see a party of these people, men, women, and 
children, swarming around, upon, and inside the carcase of an 
elephant, like ants with a big beetle, fairly wallowing in gore 
and thoroughly enjoying themselves. 
I was not myself averse to a couple of days’ spell, having 
fever on me; for though I am so thoroughly salted, from many 
bygone encounters with this enemy of African travellers during 
long years of wandering in unhealthy regions, as to be so far 
fever-proof that I am never laid up or incapacitated for any 
needful exertion, I still feel the attacks to the extent of their 
