ELEPHANT SHOT. 
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some twenty-five miles, where we stayed for the 
night, and having forgotten to bring any beads or 
brass wire, I had to tear up my silk pocket hand¬ 
kerchief into lengths about two inches wide, with 
which the Kaffirs ornament their heads by making 
a sort of band across the forehead fastened behind, 
to buy amas, beer, and amobella meal to make 
porridge. Arrived at our destination about 2 p.m. 
the following day, and Monies and Gibson turned up 
about 8 the same evening, having left the boat 
some twenty miles back, not being able to get on 
any farther in consequence of the crocodiles having 
broken the paddles and oars. In drifting fast down 
the middle of the river, Monies saw an elephant 
in the reeds, pulled in and shot her dead within 
fifteen yards, between the ear and the eye, and 
having axes, they cut out her tusks and her ear and 
put them in the boat, and continued their journey. 
The smell of blood most probably made the cro¬ 
codiles so savage, and although Monies shot five 
of them, and three sea-cows, they eventually gained 
the victory, leaving him nothing but the handle 
of an oar to scull the boat ashore. They put all 
their belongings on a sandbank and turned the boat 
over them keel uppermost, and there left her, to 
make for more inviting quarters. 
Went to the bush, and Price, Monies, and Arbuthnot 
being very handy fellows, made sculls and oars, and 
started with eight Kaffirs to carry the goods. On the 
29th they found all as Monies had left them, and 
