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 .. . d upon my horse Filfil; he had fled as usual when hesaw the troop of elephants advancing, and no one knows how far he hadridden before he thought it safe to look behind him. With two mountedgun-bearers and five others on foot I had been entirely deserted throughthe cowardice of my men. The elephant that I had left as dying, was gone. One of the Latookashad followed upon his tracks, and we h
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 .. . d upon my horse Filfil; he had fled as usual when hesaw the troop of elephants advancing, and no one knows how far he hadridden before he thought it safe to look behind him. With two mountedgun-bearers and five others on foot I had been entirely deserted throughthe cowardice of my men. The elephant that I had left as dying, was gone. One of the Latookashad followed upon his tracks, and we heard this fellow shouting in thedistance. I soon overtook him, and he led rapidly upon the trackthrough thick bushes and high grass. In about a quarter of an hour wecame up with the elephant; he was standing in bush, facing us at aboutfifty yards distance, and perceiving ws, he gave a saucyjerk with his head, and charged most determinedly. It was exceedinglydifficult to escape, owing to the bushes which impeded the horse, whilethe elephant crushed them like cobwebs : however, by turning my horsesharp round a tree, I managed to evade him after a chase of about a hun-dred and fifty (464) IN A WILD COUNTRY. 465 Disappearing in the jungle after his charge, I immediately followedhim. The ground was hard, and so trodden by elephants that it was?difficult to single out the track. There was no blood upon the ground,but only on the trees every now and then, where he had rubbed pastthem in his retreat. After nearly two hours passed in slowly followingupon his path, we suddenly broke cover and saw him travelling veryquietly through an extensive plain of high grass. The ground was gentlyinclining upwards on either side the plain, but the level was a mass ofdeep, hardened ruts, over which no horse could gallop. Knowing myfriends character, I rode up the rising ground to reconnoitre: I found ittolerably clear of holes, and far superior to the rutty bottom. My twomounted
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