214 
ELEPHANT-HUNT/NG IN EAST A EPIC A 
CHAP. 
nasty wounds on my fingers, made by the io-bore rifle, which, 
with its ten drams of powder, kicked like a mule ; and, from 
constant exposure to a scorching sun, the sores had festered 
badly. As no one had come from Lesiat’s, I sent Squareface, 
on the 22nd, to look him up, while I went out to the open 
country to try for meat. I saw some oryx, but they were wild ; 
and I did not particularly care for zebra, so left them alone. 
Then, after managing to miss some Grant’s gazelle, I was on my 
way back, having given up hopes of getting anything, when I 
came upon some more and killed two with the next two shots, 
for which success I was very thankful as I was quite out of 
meat, and it was a long way to where game is to be found from 
El Bogoi. 
Lesiat had not been found, and I now learned that he had 
gone with his clan to camp in the “ subugo ” forest on the top 
of the Lorogi Mountains. This seemed strange, and I came to 
the conclusion that he was piqued at my going away to hunt 
at El Gereh. But Baithai had now, with my permission, 
pitched his camp not far from mine, and he was really about 
the most sensible Ndorobo I had come across ; so I availed 
myself of his services. One of his men, who came with him the 
next morning, brought word that there were elephants in the 
vicinity of a spring at the foot of the range towards the north ; 
so we packed up at once and moved again to a small rock 
pool, from whence I could hunt that district. This informant 
described the length of a bull’s spoor he had seen by laying 
one arm on the ground and grasping it with the other hand a 
third of the way up from the elbow to the shoulder, thus 
indicating the measurement of the diameter of the footprint. 
We had some trouble in getting through the old game-track 
that led towards the water, for it was very much overgrown 
with thorns ; and when we got there we found the hollow in 
the rock almost dry, so that I had to send to another some 
distance off for more. 
I was off, as usual, betimes on the 24th September, and 
