. Die Geschichte von Afrika und seinen Entdeckern. seinen kleinen Trunk über thehunters Beine, beweist seine Freude durch athousand ungainly Mätzchen, als es verleitet themto erreichen die Körper seiner Mutter schnell. Bereits die Leiche war geschwollen an eine JÄGER REUE. 197 enorme Größe und durch einen inquestof^ Geier, deren Schnäbel nicht in der Lage gewesen waren, den harten topenetrate Ausblenden umgeben. Wenig recked theyoung Elefant dieser unschönen Szene. Es ranround ihren Müttern Corse mit solchen touchingdemonstrations der Trauer, weinen alle anklicken und vergeblich versucht, sie mit seiner tinytrunk zu heben, dass sogar die unhöfliche Hottento

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. The story of Africa and its explorers. its little trunk about thehunters legs, demonstrating its delight by athousand ungainly antics, as it enticed themto reach the body of its mother quickly.Already the corpse was swollen to an A HUNTERS REMORSE. 197 enormous size, and surrounded by an inquestof ^vultures, whose beaks had been unable topenetrate the tough hide. Little recked theyoung elephant of this unsightly scene. It ranround its mothers corse with such touchingdemonstrations of grief, wailing all the timeand vainly attempting to raise her with its tinytrunk, that even the rude Hottentots wereaffected by the conduct of this affectionate compunction, and divested him of the ideathat he was shooting, as he had so often shotbefore, a merciless tiger in Guzerat. Finding-that its mother heeded not its caresses, theminiature elephant followed her tusks to thewaggons. It died, however, in the courseof a few days; as did two others, mucholder, that were afterwards captured, demon-strating the cruelty and wastefulness of life. ;v^^% ON THE MARITSANI RIVEE.(From a Photograph hy Mr. H. A. Brydeii ) little brute. Then for the first time Captain that follows the slaughter of nursing-Harris began to regret that, in firing at the elephants.herd yesterday, he had not felt greater The Cashan Mountains seem in those days 198 THE STORY OF AFRICA. to have been what our hunter described them—a fairy land of sport. Elephants were often observed climbing, with A fairy , ° land of the agility of goats, to the very ^^°^ summit of the chain, until at length they stood out in bold relief againstthe blue sky. At the sound of a shot atribe of pig-faced baboons would emerge fromtheir sylvan haunts to display anything butsympathy with the intruder; and the Honstook frequent advantage of stormy nightsto visit the cattle-fold. At that time, too, theLimpopo was full of hippopotami, dividingthe lordship of the river with the crocodile, which gave an alternate name to that stream, and all alo

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• bookcentury1800
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• bookpublisherlondo
• bookyear1892