no ELEPHANTS SEEN.

game. There were, in fact, no days after we were once fairly in the game country, on which we could not have shot antelope, of one kind or another, if desirous of doing so ; and there were such numbers of natives about our camp that we felt we could shoot a great deal, and yet that no meat would be wasted.

A very bad piece of luck happened to us that same day.

While we were all out in different directions, shooting, two elephants passed within sight of the camp ; they were first seen by some of our servants, who pointed them out to the doctor. He did not shoot, but walked out some distance from camp, so as to get a good view of them. The next day some of us took up their tracks ; and after going a very long way, and seeing nothing of them, gave it up, and returned to camp. A country may fairly lay claim to being considered a gamey one, where elephants, rhinoceri, buffaloes, giraffes, and ostriches are all seen on the same day, and where, in addition, are found seven or eight varieties of antelopes, wild boars (or rather warthogs), to say nothing of lions and panthers, which, though scarce in that particular part at the time of our visit, were nevertheless to be occasionally found. As for birds, there were swarms of guinea-fowl, partridges, pigeons, and doves, and many birds of brilliant plumage, if any one cared to collect them. Only once did any of us obtain shots at ostriches, and then at such tremendously long ranges, that it was, practically speaking, almost useless to fire. They invariably kept to the open, and were so extremely wary that we could never approach unperceived.

The following day my brother William had a shot at a warthog with a fine pair of tusks, one of four he came across in the bed of the Mareb ; unluckily he missed it, so we had no pork for dinner that day. I must say it was no great disappoint-