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quitted her shelter in the wood, rushed out to his 
assistance, walked round and round him, chasing 
away the assailants, and returning to his side 
caressed him. Whenever he attempted -to walk, 
she placed her flank, or her shoulder, to his wounded 
side, and supported him.” 
Again, the Bushmen and other natives assert, 
that the elephant will carry water to a wounded 
companion who may he at a long distance in the 
Cs Weldt,” and unable himself to procure that liquid 
from the fountain. Incredible as this may seem, 
yet from what my friend, Frederick Green, writes 
me, there would really appear to be much truth in 
the story. He says : 
cc A case came under my own notice when hunt¬ 
ing in the Lake Begions in the year 1851, which 
tends greatly to corroborate the Bushmen’s state¬ 
ment. Owing to my ammunition being expended, 
I had been compelled to leave an elephant that was 
crippled, besides having eleven wounds in his body, 
some thirty miles from my waggons. In trying to 
reach the encampment, I lost my way, and it was 
- not until the following day, after wandering about 
the whole of the night, that I got there, and that 
in a very exhausted state. 
“ As I felt confident the elephant in question 
would die of his wounds, one leg being broken, I dis¬ 
patched Bushmen after him, instead of going myself; 
but they, not attending to my commands, remained 
for two days beside an elephant killed by my after¬ 
rider on a previous occasion. It was, therefore, not 
until the fourth evening after I left this elephant that 
