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In the Volcanic Region 
I heard a sudden noise close behind me. All my followers 
immediately fled behind the protecting bushes. I naturally 
followed the new tembo (elephant) on the fresh trail. As, 
however, he appeared to be rushing on ahead and I anticipated 
a lengthy chase, I left the further pursuit to Weidemann, a 
guide and an Askari. I then sent word to the camp for carriers 
to come along and cut out the tusks and carry back the flesh of 
the dead animal for our people. Then I turned back for my 
prize, but, strange to tell, I could not find him. My boy ” 
and a carrier searched in conjunction with me in vain for nearly 
two hours, although it subsequently proved that several times we 
were close to him. The similarity in the vegetation and the 
many fresh tracks always led us round in a circle. Realising 
the futility of this wandering I sat down on a fallen tree trunk 
and was devouring my breakfast, when I heard eight shots fired 
in quick succession in the direction of the last trail. It turned 
out that Weidemann had come up with his elephant, which had 
joined the herd, and had laid it low. It was a fine bull. 
When the carriers arrived from the camp I set them skirmish¬ 
ing in all directions, and so at last we contrived to find the spoil 
for which we had been searching so long. Later on the skulls 
of both the elephants were carefully prepared and found their 
way to Germany, as well as a perfect hide. These trophies were 
the first evidences of the elephant race in volcanic regions which 
found their way to a German museum. 
The bigger animal showed a height, measured from the back, 
of 3.05 metres, a meagre measurement in comparison with the 
powerful elephants of the plain who attain nearly four metres 
in height. The comparatiyely powerful tusks, which were 
2.05 metres long, and the worn grinders pointed to a fairly 
good age and strengthened the view that smallness is a charac¬ 
teristic of the mountain elephant. 
Amongst other animals found at the foot of the volcanoes, 
the lion is occasionally met. These, however, appear to be 
specimens that have wandered from the Rutschuru plain. 
Apparently, too, there are two species of leopards of different 
