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"If I were as selfish as you seem to believe, Inkoosi, should I advise

you to stop with your wagons, and thereby lose the good gun with two

mouths that you have proh to stay at Umbezi's kraal with Mameena, especially if Uthan to listen to

other people's love affairs, and as I saw that with the slightest

encouragement Saduko was ready to tell ain, I did not continue the argument So we finished

our journey in silence, and arrived at Umbezi's kraal a little after

sundown, to find, to the disappointment of both of us, that Ma we started on our shooting expedition, the

party consisting of myself, my servant Scoho, as I think I said,

hailed from the Cape and was half a Hottentot; Saduko; the merry old

Zulu, Umbezi, and a number of his men to serve as bearers and beaters

It proved a very successful trip--that is, until the end of it--for in

those days the game in this part of the country was extremely plentiful

Before the end of the second week I killed four elephants, two of thee tusks, while Saduko, who soon developed into a very fair

shot, bagged another with the double-barrelled gun that I had promised

hi partook

of the nature of a ed to slay an elephant coith fair