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between live and six feet in height, and with tusks already 

 ot' the length of a hand — remained close to their dead 

 mothers. We at once set about trying to catch them ; 

 1)ut the bigger of the two went for us so fiercely and 

 alarmingly that I was obliged to shoot it, just as it had 

 thrown one ot my men on the ground, and was about 

 to gore him to death with its tusks. I killed it with a 

 shot in the head at a distance of only a few feet. Then 



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I tackled the second one myself— a very rash proceeding — 

 and in a few^ seconds I managed, thanks to my size, in 

 securing a hold of it before it became dangerous like the 

 other, throwing one arm round its neck and grasping one 

 of its ears with the other hand, yelling out at the same 

 moment to my men to fasten its legs with ropes. Looking 

 back on it all to-day, I mar\el that I escaped from the 

 encounter with my lite. 



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