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THE ELEPHANT. 
known as an indefatigable sportsman and traveller, 
having decided upon making a hunting expedition 
to the Lake country, also arrived at Walwich Bay. 
The pursuits of the two adventurers being in many 
respects similar, an intimacy soon sprang up be¬ 
tween them, and it was agreed upon that they 
should make the journey together. However, Mr. 
Green, owing to sickness and other causes, was 
long detained on the coast, so long, indeed, that 
M. Wahlberg found it necessary to proceed without 
his new acquaintance; but, travelling very leisurely, 
my friend was eventually able to overtake him a few 
days’ journey on this side of the Lake. Here they 
again separated. M. Wahlberg, accompanied only 
by a few Damaras, started on a foot-expedition up 
the Tionghe Liver, chiefly with a view of hunting 
elephants. In this he was very successful; and 
after an absence of about five months, and after 
having penetrated to Libebe (also called Debabe), 
a place several hundred miles north of the Lake, 
and never before visited by Europeans, he returned 
in safety to his encampment on the Ngami, laden 
with the spoils of the chase. In the meantime, 
Mr. Green, and a Mr. Wilson whom he met at the 
Lake, had also made an excursion up the river in 
question, chiefly performed by water. But I 
will now let my friend tell the story in his own 
words. In a letter (a copy of which has been 
placed at my disposal) addressed to the Swedish 
Consul-General, Chevalier Letterstedt, Mr. Green 
thus writes — 
“ Upon my return from Debabe (my own jour- 
