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The preparations for capturing these animals sometimes last several weeks, as, besides enclosing the spot selected, a great many persons are employed to hunt up the elephants far and wide, and drive them gradually to the watering place. Persons sometimes go elephant-hunting, armed merely with firearms; but this is attended with danger.
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.
Some mistake had happened in the arrangement with Mr. Oswell, for we met him on the Zouga on our return, and he devoted the rest of this season to elephant-hunting, at which the natives universally declare he is the greatest adept that ever came into the country. He hunted without dogs.
In the meantime he follows the game to other districts, living in caves where they happen to abound, or making a temporary but with grass and sticks. Every deer-path, every rock, every peculiar feature in the country, every pool of water, is known to these hunting Veddahs; they are consequently the best assistants in the world in elephant-hunting.
I have even heard people exclaim, upon hearing anecdotes of elephant-hunting, 'Poor things! Poor things, indeed!
Yafir Pass Rhut Tug The Ruins at Kin's City Abban Apprehends Future Consequences Hyenas The Dulbahantas Camel Drivers' Tricks Briny Water Antelope-shooting Elephant-hunting Ostrich-hunting Gazelles Jealousy and Suspicions of the People Troubles from Forty Thieves Rapid Decline of Property. 4th December 1854.
When my friend the commandant was fairly recovered, and I myself felt strong again, I prepared to descend the Zambesi. A number of my men were out elephant-hunting, and others had established a brisk trade in firewood, as their countrymen did at Loanda. I chose sixteen of those who could manage canoes to convey me down the river.
"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."
Oswell's Elephant-hunting Return to Kolobeng Make a third Start thence Reach Nchokotsa Salt-pans "Links", or Springs Bushmen Our Guide Shobo The Banajoa An ugly Chief The Tsetse Bite fatal to domestic Animals, but harmless to wild Animals and Man Operation of the Poison Losses caused by it The Makololo Our Meeting with Sebituane Sketch of his Career His Courage and Conquests Manoeuvres of the Batoka He outwits them His Wars with the Matebele Predictions of a native Prophet Successes of the Makololo Renewed Attacks of the Matebele The Island of Loyelo Defeat of the Matebele Sebituane's Policy His Kindness to Strangers and to the Poor His sudden Illness and Death Succeeded by his Daughter Her Friendliness to us Discovery, in June, 1851, of the Zambesi flowing in the Centre of the Continent Its Size The Mambari The Slave-trade Determine to send Family to England Return to the Cape in April, 1852 Safe Transit through the Caffre Country during Hostilities Need of a "Special Correspondent" Kindness of the London Missionary Society Assistance afforded by the Astronomer Royal at the Cape.
I pointed out the difficulties and dangers of the situation to him and suggested that, under the circumstances, it might be wise to give up this wild orchid-chase and go elephant-hunting instead in a certain part of Zululand, where in those days these animals were still abundant. He was inclined to agree with me, since the prospect of killing elephants had attractions for him.
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