236 EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
which proves there was a fair amount of them, at the 
right time of year. 
We offered a large reward to any one who might 
find the wounded bull elephant, and H- and I 
searched for him all the next day and tracked him 
for a long distance, but without coming across him, so, 
reluctantly giving up the pursuit, we moved our camp 
next day to Mto - Abarri. On the march C- 
shot two rhino and a hartebeest; and B-, who 
went a long way round in pursuit of some Colobus 
monkeys which he thought he heard, obtained two 
fine buffalo. I went out in the evening to track some 
buffalo that had been seen in the morning by the rear¬ 
guard of our caravan, the spoor being very easy to follow 
from the soft nature of the ground ; at the end of a 
three-mile tramp I came upon them in thick bush, but 
moved them without getting a chance. However, I 
continued the hunt, and eventually killed a fine young 
bull with a snap-shot (the only one that I ever got 
with a single shot), which hit him very low at the 
point of the elbow, an excellent place, as their hearts 
lie low in the chest cavity. 
The night of our arrival here we held a great in¬ 
vestigation, as somehow it had come to Martin’s ears 
that the reason of the “rumpus,” I have before re¬ 
ferred to, caused by the men refusing to eat meat 
instead of mahincle, was that an askari had gone 
round and told them all to refuse the meat by order 
of our head-man Caceche. After a great deal of talk 
and prevarication this ciskari confessed there was no 
