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His eagerness to regain his old associates to partake once more of their wild freedom for he was desperately tired of civilised society, and sick of elephant-hunting all these ideas crowded into his mind at the moment, and nerved him to the utmost exertion.
Lieutenant Moodie was out elephant-hunting with a party of officers and soldiers, when one day he was told that a large troop of elephants was close at hand, and that several of the men were out, and in pursuit of them. Lieutenant Moodie immediately seized his gun, and went off in the direction where he heard the firing.
"Yes, it will be quite as well," replied the Major, "and then we shall have some elephant-hunting; but Bremen tells me that there are plenty of hippopotami in the river there, close to the Mission." "Water-elephants," replied Swinton; "I suppose you will not leave them alone?" "Certainly not, if our commander-in-chief will allow us to stop."
Elephant-hunting became a trade; and a terrible havoc was commenced, which has been unremittingly pursued down to the present time. The term ivory, originally derived from a Greek word signifying heavy, is indiscriminately applied to the following varieties of osseous matter: The tusks and teeth of the elephant.
After two hours' hard paddling in a northerly direction we stopped to walk to the village of Níbá, a large place, principally engaged in raising food for the coast fishing-villages and Béin, and also in elephant-hunting. 'Elephants at the time of my visit were reported in large numbers two days' journey in the bush, and the villagers were then organising a party for a hunt.
Akbar was engaged in elephant-hunting at Narwár when the news reached him. He immediately despatched his ablest general with the troops that were available to aid his loyal officers, whilst he should collect further troops to follow.
There was his grace's little murder affair only languishing for want of evidence owing to the witnesses for the prosecution being out elephant-hunting not very far away; and Wiki was pleading an alibi, and a twin brother, in a bad wife palaver in this town.
I hope we don't get into their clutches." "Red pygmies!" repeated Tom, wonderingly. "Yes, they're a tribe of little creatures, about three feet high, covered with thick reddish hair, who live in the central part of Africa, near some of the best elephant-hunting ground. They are wild, savage and ferocious, and what they lack individually in strength, they make up in numbers.
In a life's experience in elephant-hunting, I never was hunted for such a distance. Great as were Tetel's good qualities for pluck and steadiness, he had exhibited such distress and want of speed, that I was sure he failed through some sudden malady. I immediately dismounted, and the horse laid down, as I thought, to die.
Now, to make money, he had taken to elephant-hunting, and with his partners was just returning from a very successful expedition in the coast lands of Natal, at that time an almost unexplored territory.
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