CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN.
THE WILD HOUNDS AND THE HARTEBEEST.
Since the taming of the quaggas the hunting had been attended with tolerable success.

Not a week passed without adding a pair of tusks-- sometimes two or three pairs--to the collection, which now began to assume the form of a little pyramid of ivory standing near the bottom of the nwana.
Von Bloom, however, was not quite satisfied with his progress.

He thought they might do far better if they only had a few dogs.
Though the quaggas were of great service to them, and with these they were often able to overtake the elephant, yet they as often lost their great game, and it is more easy to do so than most persons imagine.
But with dogs to join in the hunt, the result would be quite different.
It is true these animals cannot pull down an elephant, nor do him the slightest injury; but they can follow him whithersoever he may go, and by their barking bring him to a stand.
Another valuable service which the dogs perform, is in drawing the attention of the elephant away from the hunters.

The huge quadruped when enraged is, as we have already seen, exceedingly dangerous.

On such occasions he will charge upon the noisy dogs, mistaking them for his real assailants.