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He afterwards found that his horse had received a severe 

 wound in the buttock from the elephant's tusk, but I think 

 it eventually recovered. Again, a buffalo knocked his horse 

 down, and Selous fell right under its horns. The buffalo 

 then attacked him, and he managed to throw himself to 

 one side and escape the main force of the blow, although 

 he got a painful glancing blow which nearly dislocated his 

 shoulder. 



Then the buffalo left him, which it would not likely have 

 done had it been badly wounded. The poor horse had 

 received a terrible wound in the body, and Selous had to 

 put it out of its pain by shooting it. 



Again, in British East Africa, a buffalo charged and 

 missed him, but got one of his gunbearers and gave him a 

 severe blow which nearly killed him ; as it was, the 

 buffalo's horn broke to pieces a pair of prism glasses which 

 the native had slung round his shoulders. 



On another occasion a lion charged right up to him, and 

 would doubtless have mauled him had he not stood his 

 ground. In such a long career of hunting he has had 

 many other narrow escapes, and he likely owes his escapes 

 to very good nerves, agility, and great experience. 



A great hunter of elephants and other game was the 

 late Mr. Arthur H. Neumann, and he probably shot at least 

 twice as many elephants as any man has done. I am aware 

 there are several men who have shot from 300 to 500 

 of these animals, but I believe that Mr. Neumann shot 

 about 1000 of them. Lately a book has appeared by 

 Mr. Sutherland, and in a review of this book I read that 

 he has shot 447 elephants, which is a great score. 



Mr. Neumann had one very narrow escape from a cow 

 elephant in British East Africa. He had wounded her 

 with a '303 Lee-Metford, and she then attacked him. 

 The magazine refused to act, and the animal knocked 

 him down and drove one of its tusks through the biceps 

 of one arm, at the same time injuring his ribs. He was 

 not far from Lake Rudolf at the time, and he lay ill for 

 a long time afterwards, but recovered to bag several 



