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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
of logs, having two entrances, with sliding trap doors, 
supported by a peg stuck loosely into the ground 
through a piece of meat in the middle of the floor of 
the house. A young kid is generally the attraction, 
railed off, so that the brute cannot get at him. 
On the occasion I speak of, two w T ere taken in one 
house together. On finding themselves imprisoned 
they made the most appalling row, and fought sa¬ 
vagely all night. One was shot; the other, after some 
dodging through the logs, was caught by the tail, 
his legs slit just above the hocks, and a strong iron 
chain passed through and hooked. He broke almost 
every tooth short off upon this chain, in his furious 
efforts to bite it through ; and when he had done 
this, the trap door was opened, and out he flew 
among some eight or ten powerful boar-hounds ready 
to receive him. A tremendous row and scuffle en¬ 
sued, and the poor brute, owing to his teeth being 
broken by his previous efforts to gnaw the chain, 
eventually succumbed. 
Hunting on foot once in the'Entumeni Bush, I 
had a very narrow escape from an old bull elephant 
which I had wounded. He gave chase, and I took 
up the hill; the ground was very wet and slippery— 
heaps of dead leaves, no heels to my veldt shoes, 
which were made of blesbuck skin, and, from being 
thoroughly saturated with wet, had stretched to 
nearly double the original size; consequently I went, 
as they say, two steps backwards to one forwards, was 
constantly down, and quite exhausted in the strenuous 
