a run till half-way through cover, when suddenly before
me, like a pig from a hole, a large female, with her
young one behind her, came straight down whoof-whoof-
ing upon me. In this awkward fix I forced myself to one
side, though pricked all over with thorns in doing so, and
gave her one in the head which knocked her out of my
path, and induced her for safety to make for the open,
where I followed her down and gave her another. She
then took to the hills and crossed over a spur, when, following
after her, in another dense thicket, near the head
of a glen, I came upon three, who no sooner sighted me,
than all in line they charged down my way. Fortunately
at the time my gun-bearers were with m e ; so, jumping
to one side, I struck them all three in turn. One of
them dropped dead a little way o n ; but the others only
pulled up when they arrived at the bottom. To please
myself now I had done quite enough j but as the princes
would have it, I went on with the chase. As one of the
two, I could see, had one of his fore-legs broken, I went
at the sounder one, and gave him another shot, which
simply induced him to walk over the lower end of the
hill. Then turning to the last one, which could not escape,
I asked the Wanyambo to polish him off with their
spears and arrows, that I might see their mode of sport.
As we moved up to the animal, he kept charging with
such impetuous fury, they could not go into him; so I
gave him a second ball, which brought him to anchor.
In this helpless state the men set at him in earnest, and
a more barbarous finale I never did witness. Every man
sent his spear, assage, or arrow, into his sides, until, completely
exhausted, he sank like a porcupine covered with
quills. The day’s sport was now ended, so I went home
to breakfast, leaving instructions that the heads should be
cut off and sent to the king as a trophy of what the white
man could do.
10th and 11 ¿A—The next day, when I called on Ru