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is directly around the wound, and this is always thrown away. In some 
places the descending wood is weighted with heavy stones, but in others 
the hard, heavy wood needs no extra weight. 
As they passed the neighborhood of the Great Elephant Marsh, they 
saw many elephants; but these sagacious animals soon learned that the 
NATIVES HUNTING AN ELEPHANT. 
puffing monster was a thing to be avoided, and fled in terror before the 
approach of the steamer. They succeeded, however, in catching a fine 
young elephant alive, as he was climbing up the bank to follow his dam; 
but after he was drawn on board, he was wounded by one of the men* 
and died in a few days. 
They left ship August 28, 1859, for the discovery of Lake Nyassa. 
The party numbered four whites, thirty-six Makololo, and two guides. 
