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shot; another was killed by Kooleman. Thence 
we continued on the spoor of the two remaining, 
one of which we fell in with and shot on the 
following day. The fourth morning we recovered 
the track of the young bull which we had taken 
up on the day of leaving the waggons. Not being 
able to come up with him before nightfall, we slept 
(as we had done on previous occasions) on the 
spoor. The next day, feeling hungry, and having 
managed to shoot a zebra, we camped for the night. 
The ensuing day, still continuing on the track, we 
reached a vley, where we bivouacked. Next morn¬ 
ing we passed through a village situated on the 
banks of a large river called Tamalakan, or Tama- 
nacle (see Dr. Livingstone’s Map). The inhabi¬ 
tants were Bakoba, from whom we obtained some 
pumpkins, our master’s provisions being exhausted. 
In the evening of this day we at last overtook the 
young elephant, which we found standing together 
with another elephant (an old bull), in an open flat 
near a small vley. We approached them with diffi¬ 
culty. Our master and Kooleman fired three shots 
at the larger elephant, which then fled towards the 
river, where we soon found and overtook him. M. 
Wahlberg now sent us forward to turn the elephant 
towards a point where he took up a position in 
order to intercept him. We succeeded, and having 
fired a shot at him, he ran furiously in the direction 
of our master, but out of range. M. Wahlberg, 
accompanied by a Bushman from the werft we had 
passed through, then followed his spoor. Shortly 
afterwards, hearing the elephant trumpeting, we 
