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it; his second rifle, a double 8 bore, failed to act; and the 

 elephant seized him in its trunk. It brandished him to and 

 fro in the air several times, and then planting him on the 

 ground knelt and stabbed at him with its tusks. Grasping 

 one of its forelegs he pulled himself between them in 

 time to avoid the blow; and as it rose he managed to seize 

 a hind leg and clung to it. But the tusker reached round 

 and plucked him off with its trunk, and once more bran- 

 dished him high in the air, swinging him violently about. 

 He fainted from pain and dizziness. When he came to 

 he was lying on the ground; one of his attendants had 

 stabbed the elephant with a spear, whereupon the animal 

 had dropped the white man, vainly tried to catch its new 

 assailant, and had then gone off for some three miles and 

 died. Hutchinson was frightfully bruised and strained, 

 and it was six months before he recovered. 



