Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . hinoceros, but this is not whatI want. The elephants are wary, and very hard indeed to come at, asthey are now so much sought for, and every savage knows the value ofthe ivory. I have tried fishing to-day, as I dare not fire a shot for fear offrightening the elephants, who cannot be far away; but the water was tooclear and the sun too bright to do any good. A Little African. One day I bough
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . hinoceros, but this is not whatI want. The elephants are wary, and very hard indeed to come at, asthey are now so much sought for, and every savage knows the value ofthe ivory. I have tried fishing to-day, as I dare not fire a shot for fear offrightening the elephants, who cannot be far away; but the water was tooclear and the sun too bright to do any good. A Little African. One day I bought, for the identical old musket before mentioned that Iwas forced to take in exchange, and which I had managed to patch upwith an old nail and the sinews of a buck, a little Masara boy—awaddling infant, certainly not more than two years old, but with an intel-ligent countenance, and not yet starved—whom I named Leche ; and heis a fine, quick little fellow. I am now quite fond of him. A gang ofBamangwatos, returning from hunting jackals, lynxes, wild cats, andskins of all kinds, had picked up this poor little urchin. They remainedall night by my wagon, and the one who called himself owner brought. HERD OF AFRICAN ELEPHANTS. (621) 622 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. him to me. My interpreter told me that if I did not take him they werejust as hkely to leave him as not, if they got tired of carrying him acrossthe desert; and knowing the fate in store for him, even if they got liimhome—the slave of a Bamangwato, who live from hand to mouth them-selves—I took compassion on him, and rescued him from their hands. One afternoon we unhitched close to the river, within a few hundredyards of where elephants had drunk the previous night, and we made allready for a hunt in the morning; and I was awakened at dawn by hear-ing loud cries from the Masaras, over the river, that the elephants haddrunk there in the night. We swam the horses over with the aid of acanoe. The river is about 300 yards
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