-> Elephant-Hunting 



between live and six feet in height, and with tusks already 

 of the length of a hand remained close to their dead 

 mothers. We at once set about trying to catch them ; 

 but the bigger of the two went for us so fiercely and 

 alarmingly that I was obliged to shoot it, just as it had 

 thrown one of my men on the ground, and was about 

 to gore him to death with its tusks. I killed it with a 

 shot in the head at a distance of only a few feet. Then 



\NCE OF A BROKEN MIMOSA-TREK 



1 tackled the second one myself a very rash proceeding 

 and in a few seconds I managed, thanks to my size, in 

 securing a hold of it before it became dangerous like the 

 other, throwing one arm round its neck and grasping one 

 of its ears with the other hand, yelling out at the same 

 moment to my men to fasten its legs with ropes. Looking 

 back on it all to-day, I marvel that I escaped from the 

 encounter with my life. 



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