Do you think, Baas, that you could manage to sting him up with a bullet in his knee or that great trunk of his, just to give him something to think about besides ourselves ?" Thus he prattled on, I believe to occupy my mind and his own, till at length, growing impatient, I replied: "Be silent, donkey.

Can I shoot an elephant backwards over my shoulder with a rifle meant for springbuck?
Hit the camel! Hit it hard!" Alas! Hans was right! There _were_ stones at the verge of the river, which doubtless it had washed out in periods of past flood, and presently we were among them.

Now a camel, so good on sand that is its native heath, is a worthless brute among stones, over which it slips and flounders.

But to Jana these appeared to offer little or no obstacle.

At any rate he came over them almost if not quite as fast as before.