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in no other respect from the usual and common 
kind. After a very sharp gallop through and over 
some very ugly scrub and thorny bush, I ran into 
and killed the first I saw of this new variety. Living¬ 
stone first discovered them near Sesheke, across the 
Zambesi, one of Sekeletu’s outposts. 
29 th. — Ramshua .—I found five bull elephants, 
gave chase, and singled and drove out the largest, 
and gave him a couple of pills to make him quiet; 
he shortly turned and stood at bay, about forty 
yards off, and then came on with a terrific charge. 
My newly-purchased horse, Kebon, which I was 
riding for the first time, stood stock still, and I in¬ 
tended to give the elephant my favourite shot in the 
chest, but at every attempt to raise the gun for the 
purpose of so doing, my horse commenced tossing his 
head up and down, and entirely prevented me from 
taking aim. During my attempts to pacify and 
steady him, the bull charged, and I fired at 
random, and whether the ball whistled uncomfortably 
near the horse’s ear or not I can’t say, but he gave 
his head so sudden a jerk as to throw the near 
rein over on to the off side ; the curb chain came 
undone, and the bit turned right round in his mouth. 
The huge monster was less than twenty yards off, 
ears erected like two enormous fans, and trumpeting 
furiously. Having no command whatever of my 
horse, I dug the long rowels in most savagely, when 
Kebon sprang straight forward for the brute, and I 
thought it was all up ; I leaned over on the off* side 
