The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-06-05
AN ELEPHANT HUNT.
EXCITING ADVENTURE IN ADrssrNIA.

1
| r. Boustead, surgeon in the Abyssin-
ian field force, writes from Attegerst tC
the Field, describing days elephant
hunting III that vicinity:
| i-hIye lust returned from days.
shooting in the Sowera Mountains, q,
bout thirtee / miles east of Surroo, and
| | have made u splendid bag. No ono
who has not seen it weuld believe III
elephant capable of scrambling UP the
wonderful, almost perpendicular places
| they pass with apparent facility. Theil
tracks over the edge of the rocks on the
watershed of many of the hills were
| positively not more than twenty foul
inches broad, witha sheer precipice fail
| ing eighty or one hundred feet below
| One place had an interrupted fall of up
| wards of 800 feet into a dark, rocky, ug.
| ly chasm, where the sunshine never en-
| tered. | was accompanied only by
Shohoe guide, a dlloolywallah, and my
servant, Il soldier of my regiment.
Well it was about 2 o'clock p. M. and
after crossing the fourth range, when
came in sight of the herd browsing or
the prickly aclcia and the nlimosa on the
edge of very high hill. reconnoiter-
cd their position well; they were five in
number-two with large tusks, one with
medium, and two without any percepti-
BILE. They were huge brutes, and SEEM
ed steadily ascending the hill, and de-
cided to go to a spot where they would
meet,me within a few yards. By signs
and a smattering of Arabic | made my
Shohoe companion understand this, and
he managed his duty we'll. He brongh!
me near the herd, and then stalked
tile largest tusker t. within ten yards,
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