8 
AFRICAN HUNTING. 
like veal; and I lost myself out buck-shooting on 
the plains of the Inyesan, but eventually found my 
way back in the dark, guided by signal-guns fired 
from the wagons, the plan we always adopted when 
any of our party were missing after sunset. 
On the 12th, while treking leisurely along early, 
our whole party were put into a great flurry and 
excitement by seeing a large bull elephant cross 
some 400 yards ahead, quite unconscious of any 
danger. W e were in so great a hurry unstrapping 
our guns from the sides of the wagons, that all 
of us, except White, forgot to take our bandoliers 
and more bullets. Four of us went on foot after 
the elephant as hard as we could run. As he 
was going up wind on the open, he did not hear 
us till we were within twenty yards, when White 
shouted, and he immediately turned half round; 
snap went White’s gun ; Arbuthnot and myself shot 
him behind the shoulder, and Ellis also, with a 
little twaddling weapon fifty to the pound. White 
meantime capped again, and, just as the elephant 
appeared hesitating whether to charge or not, gave 
him a good shot in the middle of the shoulder-blade. 
With a terrific scream the elephant turned and went 
off at a great pace, evidently crippled by the last 
shot. Eventually Ellis, myself, and Fly brought 
him to bay in some reeds three miles on, and the 
former, taking advantage of a commanding rock, 
on the top of which we were comparatively safe, 
gave him no less than nineteen bullets out of his 
