Occasionally, when the inspection did not prove satisfactory, the staring ended in a trumpet and a charge, but this did not often happen.

When it did we had to use our rifles.

Nor were elephants the only wild beasts in the great Elgumi forest.

All sorts of large game abounded, including lions -- confound them! I have always hated the sight of a lion since one bit my leg and lamed me for life.

As a consequence, another thing that abounded was the dreadful tsetse fly, whose bite is death to domestic animals.