370 THE ELEPHANT. 



electric fluid, though it often occasions the death of 

 the smaller kinds of game. The natives, however, 

 assured me that the occurrence was not at all an 

 unfrequent one during the rainy season. They had 

 once stumbled, they told me, upon the remains of a 

 full-grown male, whose head had been completely 

 severed from the body by a thunder-stroke, and all 

 his bones completely smashed. 



