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"An Account of 3 Years' Ivory-Hunting less than Mount Kenia and one of the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, together with a visit to the North finish of Lake Rudolph"

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"I stood to stand her, and threw up my rifle to fireplace at her head as she got here on, at a short run, with no elevating her trunk or uttering a valid, realising in a second that this was once the single factor to do, so brief used to be the space isolating us. the press of the striker used to be the single results of pulling the set off. No cartridge had entered the barrel on my operating the bolt after the final shot, notwithstanding the empty case had flown out! during this determined scenario I observed instantaneously that my case was once pretty much hopeless. The enraged elephant used to be by means of this time inside a number of strides of me; the slender direction used to be walled in on either side with thick scrub. to show and run down the trail in an instinctive attempt to flee used to be all i'll do, the elephant overhauling me at each step. As I ran these few yards I made one spasmodic try and paintings the mechanism of the treacherous journal, and, pointing the muzzle at the back of me with out having a look around, attempted it back; however it used to be no pass. She was once now all yet upon me. losing the gun, I sprang out of the trail to the proper and threw myself down between a few brushwood within the useless wish that she could go on. yet she used to be too shut; and, turning with me like a terrier after a rabbit, she was once at the most sensible of me once i used to be down. In falling I had became over directly to my again, and lay with my toes in the direction of the trail, face upwards, my head being propped up via brushwood. Kneeling over me (but thankfully no longer touching me along with her legs, which needs to, i guess, were on both sides of mine), she made 3 distinctive lunges at me, sending her left tusk throughout the biceps of my correct arm and stabbing me among the suitable ribs, even as pounding my chest along with her head (or particularly, i guess, the thick a part of her trunk among the tusks) and crushing in my ribs at the comparable part. on the first butt a few a part of her head got here in touch with my face, barking my nostril and taking patches of pores and skin off different spots, and that i proposal my head will be overwhelmed, however it slipped again and used to be no longer touched back. i used to be puzzling over on the time how she could kill me; for after all I by no means suggestion something yet that the top of my looking used to be come at last..."

CHAPTER I - FIRST day trip FROM MOMBASA
My looking weapons
Across Mackenzie River
Rhinoceros — death-charge
Waller's Gazelle
Giraffe
Stalking oryx
Device for scaring vultures

CHAPTER II - at the JAMRENI RANGE
Natives' mode of killing elephants
Sight bushbuck
Encounter with elephants
Impala
Holding a "shauri"
"Blood-brotherhood"
Track elephant spoor

CHAPTER III - tenting AT MOUNT KENIA
Advantage of head shot
Eleven elephants killed
The Kenia jungle
Gwaso Nyiro River
Encounter with lions — Rhinos
Hostile natives

CHAPTER IV - THE NDOROBO COUNTRY
Camp at El Bogoi
Limestone springs
Elands
Zebra

CHAPTER V - NDOROBO ELEPHANT-HUNTING
Ndorobo weapons
Tracking elephants
A fall-trap
An infuriated bull
Incredulous guides

CHAPTER VI - go back TO MOMBASA
Roi rhébok
A tribe at the war-path
Earthquake

CHAPTER VII - moment EXPEDITION
Samburu
Flocks of guinea-fowl
Impassable river
Construct a canoe
Lorogi Mountains

CHAPTER VIII - tours FROM EL BOGOI

Giraffe
Lost within the bush
Camp by way of the Seya River
Five elephants
Up the Barasaloi River
An fascinating hunt
A slim escape

The tales of experience proceed within the following chapters:

IX - tours FROM EL BOGOI (cont)
X - tours FROM EL BOGOI (cont)
XI - FROM EL BOGOI TO LAKE RUDOLPH
XII - LAKE RUDOLPH
XIII - A SOJOURN AT RESHIAT AND KÉRÉ
XIV - go back TO LAKE RUDOLPH
XV - go back TO LAKE RUDOLPH (cont)
XVI - EN direction FOR EL BOGOI
XVII - tenting AT EL BOGOI
XVIII - EL BOGOI TO MOMBASA

Note: The Appendix on butterflies has been removed