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men were the slaves of some of my Mpongwes’ friends, 
and they were, I knew, fast asleep; in case of accident 
I had no one to come to the rescue. At that time I was 
a young lad, and had no confidence in myself, and to 
fight an elephant which looked so big, seemed to me per- 
fectly impossible. But very soon I got accustomed to 
face danger, and loved to hunt elephants. I was no more 
afraid of them. Well, the elephant kept still coming 
‘toward me as I lay flat on the ground. At last he stop- 
ped, and then I saw him raise his trunk; my heart be- 
gan to beat terribly, for I thought he was coming down 
to charge upon me. Then he sniffed two or three times 
and suddenly ran away. I had shouldered my gun, re- 
