is 'at once disabled. Two good hunters will frequently
kill several out of one herd; but in this dangerous
hand-to-hand fight the hunter is often the victim.
Hunting the elephant on horseback is certainly far less
•dangerous than on foot, but although the speed of
the horse is undoubtedly superior, the chase generally
takes place upon ground so disadvantageous, that he
is liable to fall, in which, case there is little chance
for either animal or rider.
So savage are the natural instincts of Africans, that
they attend only to the destruction of the elephant,
and never attempt its domestication.
CHAPTER VIII.
i b r a h i m ’ s r e t u r n .
I brahim returned from Gondokoro, • bringing with
him a large supply of. ammunition. A wounded man
of Chenooda’s people also arrived, the sole relic of the
fight with the Latookas; he had been left for dead,
but had recovered, and for days and nights he had
wandered about the country, in thirst and hunger,
hiding like a wild beast from the sight of human
beings, his guilty conscience marking every Latooka
as an enemy. As a proof of the superiority of the
natives to the Khartoumers, he had at length been
met by some Latookas, and not only was well treated
and fed by their women, but they had guided him to
Ibrahim’s camp. ,
The black man is a curious anomaly, the good and
bad points of human nature bursting forth without any
arrangement, like the flowers and thorns of his own