i TO Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



hard or soft, thorny or smooth, without causing a 

 sound. They prefer forests by day, and open ground 

 at night. Huge as are these beasts, none are easier to 

 kill, if the hunter knows the right spot to aim at and 

 the right angle to fire. There are five vulnerable 

 places in an elephant. First, the bump between the 

 eyes, which should be fired at from the front, low 

 down and pointing upwards ; the best way, of 

 getting this shot is to kneel when firing. Secondly, 

 the temple shot, exactly in the centre between the 

 corner of the eye and top of ear. This shot should be 

 fired from either the right or left half face ; then from 

 the front, slightly upwards and backwards. Of all 

 the shots this is the easiest and most fatal and safest 

 for the hunter, because if the shot does not prove fatal 

 and the beast rushes forward, as it is apt to do when 

 wounded, the hunter will be out of the line of flight 

 and run less risk of being trampled upon, than when 

 firing the front shot. Thirdly, just behind the ear a 

 shot one seldom gets. Fourthly, from a height down- 

 ward in a forward direction, hitting the junction of the 

 spine and head. Fifthly, behind the shoulder ; this is 

 seldom taken by the European shikaries in India, but 

 natives often avail themselves of it, and I have seen 

 several Goliaths thus slain, notably by a son of the 

 Zemindar of Luckeepore. In Africa it is the favourite 

 shot, as it is believed the African variety cannot be 

 killed by the head shots, but Bailey, who was with me 

 on the Congo, killed over twenty elephants and had six 

 down at one time, all with the front and side head 

 shots. 



I was cruel enough once to try and kill 

 elephants off elephants. I got amongst a herd of 



