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brought him to his knees, and as he rose 1 knocked 

 him Hat with the second. He struggled to rise, but, 

 both firing, we kept him down, and I finished him 

 with a bullet in the brain from the little Springfield. 

 Althougli rather yoimger than either of the bulls 1 

 had already shot, he was even larger. In its stomach 

 were beans from the shambas, abutilon tips, and bark, 

 and especially the twigs, leaves, and white blossoms of 

 a smaller shrub. The tusks weighed a little over a 

 hundred pounds the pair. 



We still needed a cow for the JMuseum, and a couple 

 of days later, at noon, a party of natives brought in 

 word that they had seen two cows in a spot five miles 

 away. Piloted by a naked spearman, whose hair was 

 done into a cue, we rode toward the place. For most 

 of the distance we followed old elephant trails, in some 

 places mere tracks beaten down through stiff grass 

 which stood above the head of a man on horseback, 

 in other places paths rutted deep into the earth. We 

 crossed a river, where monkeys chattered among the 

 tree-tops. On an open plain we saw a rhinoceros cow 

 trotting off with her calf. At last we came to a hill- 

 top with, on tlie summit, a noble fig-tree, whose giant 

 limbs were stretched o\er the palms that clustered 

 beneath. Here we left our horses and went forward 

 on foot, crossing a palm-fringed stream in a little valley. 

 From the next rise we saw the backs of the elephants 

 as they stood in a slight valley, where tlie rank grass 

 grew ten or twelve feet high. It was some time before 

 we could see the ivory so as to be sure of exactly what 

 ( we were shooting. Then the biggest cow began to 

 I move slowly forward, and we walked nearly parallel to 

 j her, along an elephant trail, until from a slight knoll I 

 j got a clear view of her at a distance of eighty yards. 



