SHOOTING AZIUMBO: 34 
on 
took a couple of shots at the elephant’s fore legs, to 
make sure that if he did come to life it would be with 
a broken leg or two. But he never rose again. The 
second bullet that had sped from my .577 had hit the 
animal in the temple and reached his brain. What a pair 
of tusks he had, and what a Jumbo he was in point of 
size! Thirteen feet in a straight line to the shoulder, one 
tusk weighing one hundred and eight pounds and the 
other one hundred pounds, and each tusk a little over 
seven feet long!’ 
1 The tusks are to be seen in the Museum of Archeology and Paleontology 
of the University of Pennsylvania, where I have deposited them as a loan, 
together with a majority of my sporting trophies and my ethnographical 
collection. 
