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tbat could bo found, and buried them near the 

 spring. The enraged animal had not only trampled 

 his body literally to pieces, but could not feel its 

 vengeance satisfied till it had pounded the very 

 flesh into the dust, so that nothing of the unfor- 

 tunate man remained excepting a few of the larger 

 bones." 



Many and many are the extraordinary escapes 

 that people have had from wounded and infuriated 

 elephants. That of Lieutenant Moodie, as recorded 

 by himself, is perhaps amongst the most remarkable. 

 After telling us that in the year 1821 he had re- 

 cently joined the semi-military settlement of Fred- 

 ericksburg, on the picturesque banks of the Gualana, 

 beyond the great Fish River, and that on the pre- 

 ceding day the party had shot a iemale elephant 

 he goes on to say : 



" On the following morning, one of our servants 

 came to inform us that a large troop of elephants 

 was in the neighbourhood of the settlement, and 

 that several of our people were already on the \vay 

 to attack them. I instantly set oil' to join the 

 hunters, but, from losing my way in the jungle 

 through which 1 had to proceed, 1 could not over- 

 take them until after they had driven the elephants 

 from their first station. On getting out, of the 

 jungle I was proceeding through an open meadow 

 on the banks of the Gualana, to the spot where 1 

 heard the firing, when 1 was suddenly warned of 

 approaching danger, by loud cries of /<</x-<;/'/ (look 

 out!) coupled with my name in Dutch and English, 

 and at the same moment 1 heard the crackling of 



