246 SAVAGE SUDAN 
Little did I then dream of what the Upper Nile can 
show in the elephant line! 
We saw no elephants here (on White Nile) either in 
1913-14, or in 1919, and I believe they are seldom met with 
at this point—below Lake No—in winter. The accuracy 
of my census was, however, confirmed by another hunter, 
my friend Mr Sydney Pearson, who wrote me :•—•“ I just 
missed you at Lake No; you had only left your gyassa 
two hours before I arrived. I saw that big herd of 
elephants that you sketched. The big bull was at the 
west-end of the herd, a splendid fellow, and there were 
three other good bulls.” 
A few hours later we reached Lake No, and anchored 
at the confluence of the Bahr-el-Ghazal with the Mountain- 
Nile. 
Two Jacanas and (inset') Night-Heron. 
