Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



killed ; moreover, the tusks of the cow are con- 

 fiscated even if you are not fined for slaughtering 

 her. 



No ; it is not advisable to play any pranks with 

 these dangerous brutes. 



An unsporting shot is in the knee. If you 

 hit the elephant here he cannot move, as his next 

 step would bring him down, and he knows this, 

 so he has to stand still till he is brutally done to 

 death. As a matter of fact, this is a very diffi- 

 cult shot, as his knee is so low and the grass is 

 usually so high that it is often quite impossible 

 to make out where the knee is. This shot is 

 not in vogue nowadays ; it has not been practised 

 since the elephant was exterminated from South 

 Africa in the old days. 



One more piece of advice before we leave the 

 subject. Don't ever go near a stricken elephant, 

 even though he may be lying on the ground and 

 to all appearances dead. Walk round behind 

 him and put a bullet into the back of his skull, 

 raking in towards the brain. Many a man has 

 come to a nasty, messy end by walking up to 

 a dangerous animal supposing it to have shuf- 

 fled off this mortal coil, when in reality the 

 said animal was only stunned by the smashing 

 blov/ of the bullet, or else "foxing." 



In the case of all other animals, aim close 

 behind the shoulder and you get your victim in 

 the heart or lungs. You always know when 



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