We believe that we counted eight hundred elephants in sight at once.

In the choice of such a strong hold, they have shown their usual sagacity, for no hunter can get near them through the swamps.

They now keep far from the steamer; but, when she first came up, we steamed into the midst of a herd, and some were shot from the ship's deck.

A single lesson was sufficient to teach them that the steamer was a thing to be avoided; and at the first glimpse they are now off two or three miles to the midst of the marsh, which is furrowed in every direction by wandering branches of the Shire.

A fine young elephant was here caught alive, as he was climbing up the bank to follow his retreating dam.