ELEPHANT TRACKS. 
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The first day’s march was not a very long one, and 
we only got through nine miles, as it took ns nearly 
two hours to get out of Taveta forest, on account of 
the delay caused by having to cross six streams with 
banks, in some cases, very steep. We at length 
emerged from the south-west corner of the forest not 
far from the foot of the Pari or Ughono mountains, 
Ivilima-njaro being to our right front. The track im¬ 
mediately before ns led through pretty country of 
open jungle, dotted with dhom, dwarf, and wild-date¬ 
bearing palms, in addition to other trees and bushes of 
variegated foliage, all a pleasant relief to the forest we 
had been traversing during the previous eight days. 
Y\ e encamped for the night among gigantic trees 
which formed the outskirts of a forest growth, small in 
area but magnificent in its strength and luxuriance, a 
typical specimen, I imagine, of that awful vegetation 
so graphically described and so resolutely attacked and 
conquered by Stanley at the end of a hundred and 
sixty days, during his extraordinary march to the relief 
of Emin Pasha. We hoped to obtain specimens of the 
beautiful black and white Colobus monkeys which 
abound here, but were disappointed. Perhaps it was 
well we were, for there is considerable risk in shooting 
these creatures, who, according to the Wa-kahe, are 
the shades of their departed ancestors. We came 
across the recent tracks of elephants, and found that 
these beasts had cleared numerous paths through the 
dense undergrowth, uprooting small trees and scatter¬ 
ing broken branches in every direction. 
