they seen the Wanyoro arrive, they would have changed
their minds ; but the other side said, “ What ! those brutes
who said we should all die here if we stayed, and yet
dared not face the danger with us, should we now give
them a helping hand ? Never ! We told them we would
share our fate with Bana, and share it we will, for God
rules everything: every man must die when his time
comes.”
We marched for the first time without music, as the
To uttiti, 2d . d r u m ^ never allowed to be beaten in
Unyoro except when the necessities of war
demand it, or for a dance. Wanyamüézi and Wanyoro,
in addition to our own twenty men, carried the luggage,
though no one carried more than the smallest article he
could find. I t was a pattern Unyoro march, of only two
hours’ duration. On arrival at the end, we heard that'
elephants had been seen close by. Grant and I then
prepared our guns, and found a herd of about a hundred
feeding on a plain of long grass, dotted here and there by
small mounds crowned with shrub. The animala appeared
to be’ all females, much smaller than the Indian breed ;
yet, though ten were fired at, none were killed, and only
one made an attempt to charge. I was with the little
twin Manüa at the time, when, stealing along under cover
of the high grass, I got close to thè batch and fired at
the largest, which sent her round roaring. The whole of
them then, greatly alarmed, packed together and began
sniffing the air with their uplifted trunks, till, ascertain-
ing by the smell of the powder that their enemy was in
front of them, they rolled up their trunks and came close
to the spot where I was lying under a mound. My scent
then striking across them, they pulled up short, lifted
their heads high, and looked down sideways on us. This
was a bad job. I could not get a proper front shot at
the boss of any of them, and if I had waited an instant
we should both have been picked up or trodden to death :