. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . VUmOUS WA Y OF KEEriNO FOOD. 85 fore feet are only used in leaps to catch the branchestoward which they spring. Each of these three species of monkey has a very pe-culiar and distinct voice, the nkago having the most pow-erful. How often I have heard them, I should thinkalmost a mile off, either calling for their absent mate, or,like otlier wild beasts, doing it merely for the pleasureof trying the strength of their lungs. TJie cercopitheci and the cercocebi have very largepouches, whicli
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . VUmOUS WA Y OF KEEriNO FOOD. 85 fore feet are only used in leaps to catch the branchestoward which they spring. Each of these three species of monkey has a very pe-culiar and distinct voice, the nkago having the most pow-erful. How often I have heard them, I should thinkalmost a mile off, either calling for their absent mate, or,like otlier wild beasts, doing it merely for the pleasureof trying the strength of their lungs. TJie cercopitheci and the cercocebi have very largepouches, whicli possess great power of distension, andthey use them as store-houses, where they keep their nutsand berries when not CHAPTER XIII. ELEPHANT HUNTING. TAKE REFUGE ON A TREE. — FIRE TWICE AT THE ELEPHANT. HOW HE KICKED ! AN IM-MENSE PYTHON. HE KILLS ONE OF OUR DOGS. OKABl KILLS THE SNAKE. I HEAR that elepliaiits are plentiful, and their heavyfootprints are seen in a great many places in the and wild boars are also plentiful. I musthave a peep at the elephants. I must go after them inthe forest. I must kill one. Kow is the time, for Iknow that a herd is in the forest, and, to judge by thenatives pointing to the height of the sun to show the timewe should find them if w^e start early in the morning atsunrise, I suppose that they must be about a four hourswalk from the village. I liave taken my best rifle ; I have loaded it with steel-pointed bullets; 1 give to each of the two Apingi whoare to accompany me a spare gun to carry, take foodfor the day, and we start. After a while we came to fresh footprints, which evi-dently had been made where we were the day before ; wefollowed thei) t
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