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floating down some little distance. It then 

 grounded on a sand-bank, when it seemed to re- 

 cover ; and, springing up, bounded up the opposite 

 bank, when Hebbert saluted him with two more 

 shots ere he disappeared. On returning, and 

 searching with the elephant, we found it stone- 

 dead some fifty yards from where it was last seen. 



