ELEPHANTS AND DUCKS. 
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pea-shooter (most of which we afterwards extracted 
from the elephant’s ear) ere White, whose wind was 
long since exhausted, at length got up and settled 
him with the fourth ball. Seeing the spoor of a 
large troop gone ahead (this old chap bringing up 
the rear proving that delays are dangerous), we 
broiled a rasher on the spot for breakfast, hard 
and tough as a halter, and away on the spoor some 
nine or ten miles, sending word to the wagons to 
outspan, and for a relay of powder and bullets; 
but we never came up with them, and supposed 
they had taken alarm at hearing the shooting. 
Got back tired, at night, to a supper of elephant’s 
heart, very tender and good ; and breakfasted on 
the foot baked in a large hole, very glutinous and 
not unlike brawn, 
1HA.—Went out duck-shooting at the mouth 
of the Umlilas ; it being high tide, the wagons were 
obliged to wait some hours to cross. Had capital 
sport; heaps of wildfowl of all varieties, and very 
tame, and eventually bagged as many as I could 
hang round my waist-belt. As the sun was going 
down, and I saw the wagons ascending the opposite 
hills, having crossed at the drift some miles higher 
up, I endeavoured to cross opposite where I then 
was, though I had previously seen many crocodiles 
in the river. I got more than two thirds across, and 
was on a kind of island not deeper than my knees, 
and before me the stream ran deep and fast, about 
thirty yards wide. I had my gun and ammunition, 
