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three elephant hunters. One of the latter, three days be- 

 fore, had been charged by an unwoimded bull elephant. 

 He fired both barrels into it as it came on, but it charged 

 home, knocked him down, killed his gun-bearer, and made 

 its escape into the forest. In the forlorn little graveyard 

 at the station were the graves of two white men who had 

 been killed by elephants. One of them, named Stoney, 

 had been caught by a wounded bull, which stamped the 

 life out of him and then literally dismembered him, tearing 

 his arms from his body. In the African wilderness, when a 

 man dies, his companion usually brings in something to 

 show that he is dead, or some remnant of whatever it is 

 that has destroyed him; the sailors whose companion was 

 killed by falling out of the tree near our Lado camp, for 

 instance, brought in the dead branch which had broken 

 under his weight; and Stoney's gun-bearer marched back 

 to Nimule carrying an arm of his dead master, and depos- 

 ited his grewsome burden in the office of the district 

 commissioner. 



