side of them, and Sekwebu came and
told me that these had gone off saying, "Our father will see to-day what
sort of men he has got." I then went higher up the side of the valley,
in order to have a distinct view of their mode of hunting. The goodly
beast, totally unconscious of the approach of an enemy, stood for some
time suckling her young one, which seemed about two years old; they then
went into a pit containing mud, and smeared themselves all over with it,
the little one frisking about his dam, flapping his ears and tossing his
trunk incessantly, in elephantine fashion. She kept flapping her ears
and wagging her tail, as if in the height of enjoyment. Then began the
piping of her enemies, which was performed by blowing into a tube,
or the hands closed together, as boys do into a key. They call out to
attract the animal's attention,

"O chief! chief! we have come to kill you.
O chief! chief! many more will die besides you, etc.
The gods have said it," etc., etc.

Both animals expanded their ears and listened, then left their bath as
the crowd rushed toward them. The little one ran forward toward the
end of the valley, but, seeing the men there, returned to his dam. She
placed herself on the danger side of her calf, and passed her proboscis
over it again and again, as if to assure it of safety. She frequently
looked back to the men, who kept up an incessant shouting, singing,
and piping; then looked at her young one and ran after it, sometimes
sideways, as if her feelings were divided between anxiety to protect her
offspring and desire to revenge the temerity of her persecutors. The men
kept about a hundred yards in her rear, and some that distance from her
flanks, and continued thus until she was obliged to cross a rivulet.
The time spent in descending and getting up the opposite bank allowed
of their coming up to the edge, and discharging their spears at about
twenty yards distance. After the first discharge she appeared with her
sides red with blood, and, beginning to flee for her own life, seemed
to think no more of her young. I had previously sent off Sekwebu with
orders to spare the calf. It ran very fast, but neither young nor old
ever enter into a gallop; their quickest pace is only a sharp walk.
Before Sekwebu could reach them, the calf had taken refuge in the water,
and was killed. The pace of the dam gradually became slower. She turned
with a shriek of rage, and made a furious charge back among t