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Prince Rospoli in Somaliland and Colonel 

 Armstrong in Uganda, while it was in Uganda 

 also that Mr. York was killed by an elephant 

 that he had hit with both barrels. He made a 

 dash for the nearest tree, but the enraged 

 monster was too quick for him. Mr. F. L. 

 James was killed by an elephant on the West 

 Coast of Africa. He had wounded the animal 

 and was following it up in very high grass, 

 when it suddenly charged and ran its tusk right 

 through his chest, so that he died within the 

 hour. Mr. Ingram was killed under similar 

 circumstances, and it is a sad, but interesting 

 fact, that a well-known sportsman, Mr. Lort 

 Phillips, was present on both occasions. An 

 Englishman named Firmin was killed by an 

 elephant in Matabeleland; another named Attrill 

 by a female elephant in the Addo Bush, and the 

 elephant's victims also include the Swedish 

 traveller, Wahlberg, and, most recently of all, 

 Mr. Gerald Longden. Other sportsmen have 

 been more fortunate, though escape from such 

 encounters is rare. The extraordinary luck of 

 Selous has already been noticed, and the late 

 Mr. Arthur Neumann had a still closer shave, 

 for a cow elephant knocked him over on one 

 occasion before he could put up his rifle, and 

 then she knelt over him and drove her tusk 

 through his arm and ribs, breaking several 

 of the latter. That he was not killed on 



