Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



of the heart being touched. This animal — shot 

 in the neck — however, is not dead, and the coup 

 de grace has to be administered. 



Now, I have seen an elephant shot in the heart 

 as well as one floored with the "heart shot," and 

 the behaviour of each was as described above, as 

 is to be expected of all good wild beasts. (The 

 former was a screaming tenor!) I have asked 

 several medical men about this, and the consen- 

 sus of their opinion is that the so-called "heart 

 shot " is in reality the neck shot in other animals, 

 since the elephant has practically no neck to speak 

 of; and that this shot catches the nerves in the 

 neck and paralyses him. 



To continue. If the elephant is not quite 

 broadside on but rather turned towards you, don't 

 shoot, wait, because your bullet may have to 

 plough its way through inches of solid bone 

 before reaching the brain. If he is facing slightly 

 away from you it is possible to shoot — up the 

 ear-hole — but advisable to wait. If he is facine 

 you end-on, but still unsuspicious, don't shoot ; 

 wait again. Remember it is far better to make a 

 "dead snip" of an animal that all the world is 

 anxious to shoot, if not so much for the sport and 

 danger attached thereto as for the monetary 

 value of his tusks, by waiting two or three hours 

 even, than to muddle the business by letting him 

 get off wounded, very likely never to be met 

 with again. 



