Five of each were shot for food during our journey.

Two of the elephants were females, and had only a single tusk apiece, and were each killed by the first shot.

It is always a case of famine or satiety when depending on the rifle for food--a glut of meat or none at all.

Most frequently it is scanty fare, except when game is abundant, as it is far up the Zambesi.

We had one morning two hippopotami and an elephant, perhaps in all some eight tons of meat, and two days after the last of a few sardines only for dinner.
One morning when sailing past a pretty thickly-inhabited part, we were surprised at seeing nine large bull-elephants standing near the beach quietly flapping their gigantic ears.