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while the elephant turned circles trying to find him, 
until, becoming faint from his injuries, Outram dived 
into the grass at one side. Outram’s companion 
by this time got back into the game and killed the 
elephant. 
Hutchinson’s story I have forgotten a little now, 
but I remember that he said the elephant caught him, 
brushed the ground with him, and then threw him. 
The elephant followed him and Hutchinson put off 
fate a few seconds by somehow getting amongst the 
elephant’s legs. The respite was enough, for the 
gun boy, by this time, began firing and drove the 
elephant off. 
In all of these cases, unlike mine, the elephants had 
used their trunks to pick up their victims and to throw 
them, and they had intended finishing them by tram- 
pling on them. This use of the trunk seems more 
common than the charge with the tusks that had so 
nearly finished me. Up in Somaliland Dudo Muh- 
ammud, my gun boy, showed me the spot where he 
had seen an elephant kill an Italian prince. The 
elephant picked the prince up in his trunk and beat 
him against his tusks, the prince, meanwhile, futilely 
beating the elephant’s head with his fists. Then the 
elephant threw him upon the ground, walked on him, 
and then squatted on him, rubbing back and forth 
until he had rubbed his body into the ground. 
But elephants do use their tusks and use them 
with terrible effect. About the time we were in the 
Budongo Forest, Mr. and Mrs. Longdon were across 
Lake Albert in the Belgian Congo. One day Longdon 
