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ELEPHANT-HUNTING. 
Chap. XXVHT. 
Both animals expanded their ears and listened, then left then’ 
bath as the crowd rushed towards them. The little one ran for¬ 
ward towards the end of the valley, hut, seeing the men there, 
returned to his dam. She placed herself on the danger side of 
her calf, and passed her proboscis over it again and again, as if to 
assure it of safety. She frequently looked hack to the men, who 
kept up an incessant shouting, singing, and piping; then looked 
at her young one and ran after it, sometimes sideways, as if her 
feehngs were divided between anxiety to protect her offspring, and 
desire to revenge the temerity of her persecutors. The men kept 
about a hundred yards in her rear, and some, that distance from 
her flanks, and continued thus until she was obliged to cross a 
rivulet. The time spent in descending and getting up the oppo¬ 
site bank, allowed of their coming up to the edge, and dis¬ 
charging their spears at about twenty yards distance. After the 
first discharge, she appeared with her sides red with blood, and, 
beginning to flee for her own life, seemed to think no more of her 
yomig. I had previously sent off Sekwebu with orders to spare 
the calf. It ran very fast, but neither young nor old ever enter 
into a gaUop; their quickest pace is only a sharp walk. Before 
Sekwebu could reach them, the calf had taken refuge in the water, 
and was killed. The pace of the dam gradually became slower. 
She tmmed with a slniek of rage, and made a furious charge back 
among the men. They vanished at right angles to her course, or 
sideways, and, as she ran straight on, she went through the whole 
party, but came near no one, except a man who wore a piece of 
cloth on his shoulders. Bright clothing is always dangerous in 
these cases. She charged tliree or four times, and, except in the 
first instance, never went farther than 100 yards. She often stood 
after she had crossed a rivulet, and faced the men, though she 
received fresh spears. It was by this process of spearing and loss 
of blood that she was killed, for at last, maldng a short charge, 
she staggered round and sank down dead in a kneeling posture. 
I did not see the whole hunt, having been tempted away by 
both sun and moon appearing unclouded. I tmmed from the 
spectacle of the destruction of noble animals, which might be made 
so useful in Africa, with a feeling of sickness, and it was not re¬ 
lieved by the recollection that the ivory was mine, though that 
was the case. I regretted to see them killed, and more especially 
