expeditions. Their mode of procedure seems to have been to set up a camp in a district where elephants were common, and for the slaves, in the first instance, to watch and follow a troop of elephants. The head hunter, accompanied by a dozen or so armed freemen, was then sent for, and, choosing his elephant, approached quite close and fired a shot.

If he was lucky enough to kill the animal, which rarely happened, matters were simplified; if not, he returned to camp, and the remainder of the detachment followed the wounded animal for a day or a week, as the case might be, till they succeeded in killing him. The tusks were handed over to us, the sale of the meat alone making these hunters the wealthiest people in the district. We were at this time having a good deal of trouble with the natives to the westward of the