ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN AP.YSStXIA. 01 



either case, he remains incapable of advancing a 

 step till the horseman's return, or until his com- 

 panions, coming up, pierce the brute through with 

 javelins and lances; he then falls to the ground, and 

 expires from loss of blood. 



" The Aggajeer nearest me presently lanced his 

 elephant, and left him standing. Ayto Engedan, 

 Ayto Confu, Guebra Marram, and several others, 

 fixed their spears in the other before the Aggajeer 

 had cut his tendons. My Aggajeer, however, 

 having wounded the first elephant, failed in the 

 pursuit of the second; and being close upon him at 

 the entrance of the wood, he received a violent blow 

 from the branch of a tree which the elephant had 

 bent with his weight, and, after passing, allowed it 

 to replace itself, when it knocked down both the 

 riders and very much hurt the horse. This, indeed, 

 is the great danger in elephant-hunting; for some 

 of the trees that are dry and short break by the 

 violent pressure of so immense a body moving with 

 such rapidity, and fall upon the pursuer, or across the 

 road. But the greatest number of these trees being 

 of a succulent quality, they bend without breaking, 

 and return quickly to their former position, when 

 they strike both horse and rider so violently that 

 they often beat them to pieces." 



The above account of Bruce's, as to the manner in 

 which the elephant is killed in Abyssinia, has re- 

 cently been most fully corroborated by Sir Samuel 

 Baker, who, as it has been said, not only made the ac- 

 quaintance of certain of the " Aggajeers," the famous 

 Nirnrods spoken of by Bruce, but hunted for a con- 



