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The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter · Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell — chapter 4 of 24 · ~201 words · public domain

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Chiefs in Armour with Arrow-proof Quilts ” 131

An Enormous Man, Fully Seven Feet High, rose from a Pile of Rags ” 132

Whenever the King Sneezes, Coughs or Spits the Attendant Slaves break into Loud Wailing ” 133

In Buba Rei ” 136

A Foot Soldier ” 137

Lakkas, Shy and Nervous ” 140

Buba Gida’s Elephant Hunters ” 141

He Disappeared into the Thick Stuff ” 146

There He was now Facing Me ” 147

Gallery Forest and Baboon ” 150

Camp on Lake Léré ” 151

A Man-Eater, from whose Inside a Woman’s Bangle was taken ” 152

Native Decoys ” 154

Whistling Teal and Locust Storks ” 154

Rolling up Hippo ” 154

The Small Canoe Up-streaming ” 155

Hippopotamus in the Shallows ” 156

W., in the Small Canoe, runs into a Rising Hippo ” 157

Spur-winged Geese ” 158

Male Egyptian Geese in Breeding Season ” 159

Sky Black with Wildfowl ” 160

Rhino nearly have our Cook ” 161

Musgum Village ” 162

Mud Huts: Musgum ” 163

A Water Buck ” 164

Female Water Buck on Sandbank ” 165

Doe Kob and Calf well Camouflaged ” 166

Cow Hippo and Calf ” 167

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