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ivories, using the old rifle that went off at half-cock

Never have I seen a lorious Kafir For whole hours he danced and sang and took snuff

and saluted with his hand, telling le version of which tale agreed with the other He

took a new title also, that meant "Eater-up-of-Elephants"; he allowed

one of his ht,

preventing us fro a wink of sleep, until at last the poor

fellow dropped in a kind of fit fro until it became a bore

Besides the elephants we killed lots of other things, including two

lions, which I got alht and left, and three white

rhinoceroses, that now, alas! are nearly extinct At last, towards the

end of the third week, we had as much as our men could carry in the

shape of ivory, rhinoceros horns, skins and sun-dried buckflesh, or

biltong, and determined to start back for U delayed, as our powder and lead were

running low; for in those days, it will be remembered, breechloaders had

not come in, and ammunition, therefore, had to be carried in bulk