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CHAPTER IX. 
CASUALTIES TO ELEPHANT-HUNTERS—-DEATH OF WAHLBERG— 
CAREL KRIEGER’S FATAL ADVENTURE—REVENGE OF A WOUNDED 
ELEPHANT—REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF LIEUTENANT MOODIE— 
LIFE OF THE ELEPHANT-HUNTER— DANGERS AND HARDSHIPS 
TO WHICH HE IS EXPOSED—MAD WAGER AND ITS FATAL RE¬ 
SULT—ELEPHANT-HUNTING, BLOODY AND UNDESIRABLE WORK. 
ASUALTIES amongst elephant-hunters are 
AJ of frequent occurrence. Not a few of those, 
indeed, who systematically follow the pursuit, 
whether for sport or commercial purposes, 
come to grief sooner or later. One of the best- 
known victims of the infuriated animal was my 
friend and countryman, the late Professor Wahl- 
berg, of whose tragical end it was my painful duty 
to send the following account to the Cape of Good 
Hope Press :— 
Professor Wahlberg met his end whilst hunting 
to the north-east of Lake Ngami. A Swede by 
birth, he arrived for the first time in this colony 
(Table Bay) in September, 1838. He remained at 
the Cape until the following April, 1839, when he 
embarked for Port Natal. Hence he penetrated into 
the interior, considerably beyond the Zulu country, 
extending his expeditions even as far as the banks 
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