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My men excited the admiration of the Bambiri, who took them for a superior breed on account of their bravery in elephant-hunting, and wished to get them as sons-in-law on the conditions named, but none yielded to the temptation. We were informed that there is a child belonging to a half-caste Portuguese in one of these tribes, and the father had tried in vain to get him from the mother's parents.
You look kind, and I would like to know more about you." Moodie shook hands with the old hunter, and assured him that we should always be glad to see him. After this invitation, Brian became a frequent guest. He would sit and listen with delight to Moodie while he described to him elephant-hunting at the Cape; grasping his rifle in a determined manner, and whistling an encouraging air to his dogs.
I thought it probable he would be safer left as he was as these ravenous brutes, seeing him alive, might not so readily approach him. "So I left him with his `head under his arm, in hopes that we may find him there to-morrow." So ended Hans's narrative of his day's adventures. The field-cornet was far from satisfied with his day's work. His first attempt at elephant-hunting had proved a failure.
To my astonishment, not a soul moved a murmur arose among the troops; and at last one of the oldest and bravest came forward. "Captain," he said, "it is of no use; we cannot feed upon elephants for ever; we have not a grain of powder left, and must give up the fort when the attack is made to-morrow. We may as well be prisoners now as then, and we won't go elephant-hunting any more." "Ruffian!"
It was all that I had made by a very rough year's elephant-hunting beyond the Zambesi, and I sighed deeply and prophetically when I saw my successful friend, who was a Yankee, sweep up the roll of Standard Bank notes with the lordly air of the man who has made his fortune, and cram them into his breeches pockets.
Elephant-shooting is doubtless the most dangerous of all sports if the game is invariably followed up; but there is a great difference between elephant-killing and elephant-hunting; the latter is sport, the former is slaughter. Many persons who have killed elephants know literally nothing about the sport, and they may ever leave Ceylon with the idea that an elephant is not a dangerous animal.
Roosevelt and carry out the elephant-hunting compact made many months before at the White House. Eleven days of marching and hunting from the railroad brought us to Sergoi, the very uttermost outpost of semi-civilization. Here we found another letter in which Mr. Akeley was asked to come to the Roosevelt camp, and which suggested that a native runner could pilot him to its whereabouts.
When the men are away in the forest rubber or elephant-hunting, and have to cook their own food, they cannot get quite so much; but when I have come across them on these expeditions, they halted pretty regularly every two hours and had a substantial snack, and the gorge they all go in for after a successful elephant hunt is a thing to see once.
And I can hear her too. "Don't bring any of your elephant-hunting manners here, Mr. You should go and brush your hair, Mr. Quatermain." Then would come her little husband's horrified "Hush! hush! you are quite insulting, my dear." Oh! why do I remember it all after so many years when I have even forgotten the people's names? One of those little things that stick in the mind, I suppose.
The widows were inside the dead husband's hut, as usual; the Fan huts are stoutly built of sheets of flattened bark, firmly secured together with bark rope, and thatched they never build them in any other way except when they are in the bush rubber- collecting or elephant-hunting, when they make them of the branches of trees.
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