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beneath, and was extracted from the muscles of 

 the heart The elephant when he received the 

 shot was crossing a deepish nullah, and I fired 

 from the saddle, having pulled up at the edge of 

 the steep descent at about twenty yards distant 

 from the bull, which collapsed at once. On another 

 occasion, with the same gun, I fired at the stern 

 of a giraffe, striking her a few inches below the 

 tail, and the ball traversed the body, passed up 

 the long neck between skin and muscles, and fell 

 out from under the ear when the Kaffirs were 

 cutting off the head. No doubt a conical pro- 

 jectile from a rifle will penetrate a block of wood 

 much deeper than a spherical ball can be made 

 to do, but, judging from my own experience and 

 published records on the subject, the conclusion 

 come to is that in penetrating the elastic tissues 

 of which animals are composed there is no very 

 essential difference between the results achieved 

 by either form of projectile at sporting distances. 



Assuming that in many foreign countries a 

 supply of cartridge cases is often difficult to obtain, 

 and that to carry a very large quantity about is 

 inconvenient, it behoves the "globe-trotter" to 

 economise by reloading his cases instead of throw- 



