A DAY WITH THE ELEPHANTS. 
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lovely fountain till we had some idea of the direction 
in which we were likely to find more. One morning, 
just before daylight, we heard a lion coming slowly 
to the water with his low, subdued kind of mur¬ 
muring, and, ere I could get ready, Kleinboy and 
January, the foremost at every game, good and bad, 
had sneaked down with their guns to wish him good 
morning. They found him drinking, and missed him 
with three barrels, and I was just in time to see him 
scouring across the open. We had a long ride the 
following day in quest of Masaras, and at length Boy’s 
sharp eyes spied a kraal a long way off, and we 
galloped our utmost to surround and cut off the 
retreat of the inmates, and nearly frightened to 
death an old man and a parcel of children; the 
able-bodied men were hunting. We shot them 
three springbuck and two quaggas, and we found 
plenty of splendid water, and returned to the wagon 
pleased with our success, as we could not have moved 
without guides, and the Masaras fly like chaff before 
the wind from the sound of a gun, the crack of a 
whip, or any appearance of a white man. 
I am now going to give you a short description of 
a day’s sport amongst the elephants, which we came 
to at last, going hungry and very cold for two days 
and nights, as a sort of preliminary. 
We started early to a vley to see if the elephants 
had drunk, and took up the spoor of the day 
previous. As they had not been that night, the 
Bushmen, eight in number, followed it beautifully 
