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taint in the air), but he also showed such desperate 

 cunning in doubling before he made his attack, so 

 as to take us in the rear and cut off our retreat. 

 Luckily, however, for us, clever as he might have 

 been in the doctoring line, he could not recover 

 himself after the settling effects of a single pill 

 administered by the arm of the most worthy Bishop 

 (of Bond Street). 



Having washed off some of the extraneous mud 

 in a neighbouring pool, I went to examine the 

 dead elephant, whose almost rabid state I could now 

 easily account for, as besides the hole my bullet 

 had made, from which the blood was still oozing, 

 there were three other recent wounds in nearly the 

 same place, with a fourth that had passed through 

 the off ear, and two more in the off shoulder. 

 What astonished me more particularly was, that 

 none of the three wounds which the animal had 

 previously received should have proved mortal, 

 although all were planted in the most vital part of 

 the elephant's skull, and one within an inch of my 

 own shot, from which death was instantaneous. 



On my attempting to probe the previous wounds 



