THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



lightninglike rapidity, caught hold of the unsuspecting 

 hunter, and before his brother, who was only a few yards 

 away, could kill the brute, the unfortunate sportsman was 

 dashed against a rock and instantly killed. Mr. Ringler 

 also confirmed the curious story of native hunters that 

 the elephants in a certain district in German East Africa 

 like to eat a kind of root, which makes them so intoxicated 

 that they lie down and sleep hard enough for the natives 

 to be able to kill them easily with swords or spears. 



Among hunting trophies none can be compared with 

 a well mounted head of a big tusker. The writer was 

 fortunate enough to get home a perfect head skin of one 

 of his big elephants, w^ith tusks over seven feet in length. 

 The whole head, mounted, weighs over one thousand seven 

 hundred pounds. The tip of the trunk projects almost 

 fourteen feet from the wall, and the head measures over 

 ten feet from tip to tip of the mighty ears! This mag- 

 nificent and especially well-mounted trophy is at present 

 on exhibition in the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, 

 among the National Collection of Heads and Horns. 



