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and stutter like a maniac, stating, so soon as his powers of articulation had returned, that in event of our entering the jungle 
we should certainly “fill de Olifant,” “That,” remarked my companion, “is the very thing we are ambitious of doing, so 
come along.” “No, no, no, no,” screamed our vaunting ivory hunter, with much painful blinking of the eyes to accelerate his 
delivery, “Z fra dat de Olifant shall undoubtedly kill de Sieur: he's he's he's —vary quaad,”’* 
This was indeed a clean different affair, and after some deliberation it appeared so highly probable that Andries’ last 
position was correct, that seeing the poor beast was in no condition to travel far, we bivouacked im a snug situation, hoping 
to find him somewhat the worse of his wounds when hostilities should be renewed in the morning. But no! The moment the 
badgered animal again perceived his persecutors, like a champion knight of old entering the lists to cast down the gauntlet to 
all comers, his little twinkling red eyes glaring under the fire of madness like lenses of glass— out he burst into the open 
space, grinding his heavy foot along the soil, brandishing his ponderous trunk aloft, and screaming forth his shrill note of 
rage and defiance! Charge succeeding charge, volley after volley, was poured into the moving mountain of flesh, now completely 
begrimed with dirt and clotted gore. Frenzied by pain, he rushed recklessly in every direction, squirting the crimson tide 
from his nostrils, and appearing to be almost suffocated with rage—until, covered with wounds and with glory, and fairly 
exhausted by exertion and loss of blood, he quietly sauk upon his knees after a last desperate lunge, and receiving another 
shower of balls in the broad forehead, rolled over like a falling tower! Great as was our triumph, and loud and long though 
the cheering that followed the reduction of this most invincible of his race, the manner of his death could not fail to recal 
somewhat unpleasantly to mind the foul murder in Exeter ‘Change of the unfortunate Chunee, upon whose Juckless carcase 
were expended more than a bushel of rifle bullets, in addition to the entire ammunition possessed by a strong detachment of 
the military. 
The attempt to capture a sturdy little bull calf that had lagged behind, and been abandoned by its comrades in the 
yesterday's skirmish, next afforded us infinite diversion. Far from attempting any pathetic appeal to our humanity, the rascal 
charged with the utmost vice and indignation every person who ventured within its range; and finally overturning one of the 
Matabili gnides, was by the sentence of a dram-head court martial, summarily impaled and executed on the spot. The 
troop being now completely routed, we returned on the fourth day to ‘the waggons, laden with spoils, having also fully esta- 
blished the possibility of dispensing, even to cooking apparatus, with every article of baggage. Carrying nothing save the 
raiment on our backs, the saddle served for a pillow, and the horse-rug for a blanket. Our tent was the starry canopy of 
heaven; we drank of the waters of the crystal stream, and our viands were the produce of our trusty rifles, It 
is said of the epicures of Rome, that they esteemed the trunk of an elephant amongst the choicest of luxuries; and descending 
to more modern times, we find one brother traveller, Le Vaillant, feasting upon the foot with extraordinary relish. To the attention 
of the city alderman, however, | must be permitted to recommend the slice round the eye, which appears hitherto to have 
been overlooked by 4on wivans. Upon this dainty morsel, roasted on a stick before a blazing fire, or so singed among the 
embers as to come under the Hottentot denomination of carbonaadtje, or devilled-grill, we frequently feasted; and I can aver 
without the smallest fear of contradiction, that the dish much more nearly resembled the fragment of a shoe, picked up after 
a conflagration, than meat which conld boast of having been subjected to any culinary process. 
Long ere retracing our steps from the tropic through this menagerie of elephants, both the waggons were so crammed 
with spolia opima, that we were compelled to cast out a number of the teeth, and leave the ground strewed with ivory. 
Atter all, the greatest difficulty was experienced in getting the heavily laden vehicles clear of the formidable belt of wooded 
hillocks, which, intersected by deep ravines, form the suburbs of the Cashan range. In some places, the paths worn by the 
huge tenants of this almost trackless region being too narrow, it was found requisite to send a party of pioneers to widen 
them—thns literally cutting our way through the country, and making the aged and hitherto silent forests ring to the un- 
wonted sound of the axe. Our concluding day’s elephant hunting was scarcely less full of incident than the first. From the 
top of a commanding eminence overlooking a lone yalley in which they had long been cantoned, many hundreds of the stately 
beasts burst at once upon the vision, and we for the last time saw the face of the highly picturesque landseape literally alive 
with their scattered forces —some bathing in the pellucid stream —others browsing in indolent security “like the cattle upon a 
thousand hills.” It is no exaggeration to say that a verdant glen some two or three miles in length, was completely studded 
over with clumps of them. Wheresoever we gazed, there a party of elephants was to be seen, and upon our attacking a 
column consisting of one hundred at least, the whole rushed franticly down a ravine, with ears upraised, and tossing trunks, 
sereaming wildly, and levelling every thing before them. A shot fired from the bank, whilst it sealed the fate of the leader, 
“headed the division back again; and again, like a fleet tossing the opening waves from before their gallant bows, they crashed 
throngh the yielding branches, snapping like small twigs the largest that opposed their progress, and strewine them on either 
side of their headlong course—the persecution being repeated after this manner until they had become fairly stupified. On 
one occasion the generals attempted to retrieve the lost day by a reckless and simultaneous charge from several quarters; but 
although we were often so surrounded by small detachments that it appeared extremely doubtful which party would be eyentu- 
ally obliged to retire from the field, the sound of the human voice uniformly turned the seale, and proclaimed MAN the 
victor. ; 
A stupendous army of elephants tls ranging in native dignity amid the primeval magnificence of an African landscape 
—their sagacious appearance giving earnest of their exalted intellectual endowments amongst quadrupeds, and their very 
* 1 say that the clephant will surely kill you, for he's —very angry! 
