. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ound displaying a succession of rubyfestoons, and reminding one of a vineyard laden with its clusteringfruits. When the skull of my elephant was ready for the axeMutchuisho caused a party to hew out for me the tusks—a workof great labor, and needing considerable skill. In the presentinstance the work was clumsily executed, the native hacking andinjuring the ivory in removing the bone with their little toma*hawks. In consequence of this, I invariably afterward performedthe task myself, using superior American hatchets, which I hadprovided expressly for the pu
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ound displaying a succession of rubyfestoons, and reminding one of a vineyard laden with its clusteringfruits. When the skull of my elephant was ready for the axeMutchuisho caused a party to hew out for me the tusks—a workof great labor, and needing considerable skill. In the presentinstance the work was clumsily executed, the native hacking andinjuring the ivory in removing the bone with their little toma*hawks. In consequence of this, I invariably afterward performedthe task myself, using superior American hatchets, which I hadprovided expressly for the purpose. When the tusks had beenextracted, I saddled up and started for the camp, accompanied bymy after-riders and a party of the natives bearing the ivory, witha supply of baked foot and trunk and a portion of the flesh. Thenatives had appropriated all tlie rest. On our way to camp wepassed through the kraal of the Bakalahari. In the valleys theyhad large gardens, in which corn and water-melous wer» g^owa 846 HUNTING CHAPTER LYL
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