CH. XVIII 
TERRIER V. ELEPHANT 
During the forenoon of September 15th, 1909, at 
Kitulika stream, a small tributary of the 
Mbarangandu, I shot a couple of fine, big tuskers, 
and the remaining one of the herd, decamping 
and progressing in a semi-circle, came across my 
carriers, who were following up about a mile 
TWO TUSKERS. THE SECOND JUST DISCERNIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND. 
behind. Getting their wind, he immediately turned 
back on his tracks, which I was following, and, all 
of a sudden, I heard him about a couple of hundred 
yards off, forging his way through a thicket of long 
grass and coming straight in my direction. As my 
trackers and I were standing in a patch of country 
free from vegetation, the grass having been 
