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loss of blood iu a short time, thus positively hilled 
by one man with two strolces of the sword .” 
“ That the above extraordinary style of hunting 
should be attended with superlative danger, and 
that the hunters ahould frequently fall victims to 
their intrepidity must,” as Sir Samuel Baker truly 
remarks, “be evident to every one.” 
Still further, however, to shew the courage and 
daring of the remarkable individuals in question, it 
may be proper to mention that on a certain occa¬ 
sion a number of men were sent by Sir Samuel into 
the forest to bring home the flesh and spoils of 
several elephants shot on the preceding day, and 
that on the return of the party, one of the three 
Aggajeers, named loli, who had accompanied ifc, 
was borne on a litter to the encampment with a 
broken thigh. The cause of the accident was 
thus explained by Abou Do, one of the unfortunate 
man’s companions. 
“ While the party of camel-men and others were 
engaged in cutting up the dead elephants, the three 
Aggajeers had found the track of a bull that had 
escaped wounded. In that country, where there 
was no drop of water upon the east bank of the 
Settite for a distance of sixty or seventy miles to 
the river Gask, an elephaut, if wounded, was afraid 
to trust itself in the interior. One of our escaped 
elephants had, therefore, returned to the thick 
jungle, and was tracked by the Aggajeers to a 
position within two or three hundred yards of the 
dead elephants. As there were no guns, two of 
the Aggajeers, utterly reckless of consequences, 
