CHAPTER XXXIV 
A FEW DAYS’ HUNTING 
After some days of promiscuous hunting, during 
which I had managed to get several fine heads, 
including sable and roan antelopes, a leopard, an 
eland, and one or two elephants, I arrived, one 
pitch-dark night, at a little village on the Luhan- 
yando stream, and being thoroughly tired and 
feverish into the bargain, decided to stay there till 
morning. In the middle of the night, I was 
awakened by a noise as if an army of dancing 
dervishes had invaded the village, and, on inquiring 
the cause of the hubbub, learned that the natives 
were shouting and beating drums to scare away 
some elephants that were having a ‘ night out ’ in 
the matama corn. This pandemonium failed to 
have any other effect than keeping me awake, and 
the marauders continued their feast until an hour or 
so before dawn, when they felt that it was advisable 
to depart. 
At break of day, we rose, and, going into the 
shambas, which looked as if they had been visited 
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