This consisted of candlesticks, and snuffer-trays, and dish-covers, and cruet-stands, and a variety of articles of the real "Dutch metal." Some of these were condemned to the alembic of the melting-pan; and, mixed with the common lead, produced a set of balls hard enough for the hide of the rhinoceros itself--so that this day the hunters had no fears of failure upon the score of soft bullets.
They went in the same direction as upon the preceding day, towards the forest or "bush" (bosch), as they termed it.
They had not proceeded a mile when they came upon the spoor of elephants nearly fresh.

It passed through the very thickest of the thorny jungle--where no creature but an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a man with an axe, could have made way.

A family must have passed, consisting of a male, a female or two, and several young ones of different ages.

They had marched in single file, as elephants usually do; and had made a regular lane several feet wide, which was quite clear of bushes, and trampled by their immense footsteps.

The old bull, Swartboy said, had gone in advance, and had cleared the way of all obstructions, by means of his trunk and tusks.