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about eight yards of us. We fired at the same moment ; th 

 elephant wheeled about, and; after running a hundred yards 

 reduced his pace to a slow walk. I clapped Carey on the 

 shoulder, and said, '" We have him." 1 had hardly uttered the 

 words when he fell over oh his side ; he rose, however, again to 

 his feet. At this moment the same presuming borele who had 

 troubled us in the early part of the night, came up to us again, 

 and, declining as before to depart by gentle hints, I thought it a 

 h'ting moment to put an end to his intrusion, and accordingly 

 gave him a ball behind the shoulder. On receiving it, he galloped 

 off in tremendous consternation, and passed close under the dying 

 elephant, who at the moment .fell dead with a heavy crash, and 

 broke one of his hind legs under him in the fall. 



About an hour after two more elephants came towering on from 

 the east. When they came up they stood for a long time motion- 

 less within forty yards of the water ; and at length the finer of 

 the two, which was a very first-rate old bull, and carrying im- 

 mense tusks, walked boldly forward, and passing round the north 

 side of the fountain, commenced drinking on the rock just as the 

 crippled bull had done. We both fired together, holding for his 

 heart ; the bullets must have gone nearly through him, for we 

 had double charges of powder in our weapons. On receiving the 

 shots he dropped a volume of water from his trunk, and, tossing it 

 aloft, uttered a loud cry and made ofF, steering north ; but before 

 he was out of our sight he reduced his pace to a slow walk, and 

 I could quite plainly hear, by the loud, painful breathing through 

 nis trunk, that he was mortally wounded ; but whether the natives 

 were too lazy to seek him, or h iving found him would not tell me, 

 I know not, but I never got him. We shot another bull elephant 

 shortly after this ; he too uttered a shrill cry, and went off holding 

 the same course the last one did ; that was, however, all that I 

 ever saw of him. 



It was now wearing on toward morning : the moon was low 

 and the sky was cloudy ; and feeling very sleepy, I set the t'.vo 

 Bakalahari to watch while I lay down to rest. Carey was already 

 enjoying a sound sleep, and snoring loudly. I had lain nearly an 



