40 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER CH. in 



*' $rd October, 1908, Lindi. From our correspond- 

 ent. Sutherland, the elephant hunter, has been 

 seriously injured between Songea and Sassawara. 

 He had the good fortune to bag three elephants. 

 A fourth animal, which he had wounded, pursued 

 him furiously, seized him with his trunk and flung 

 him up on his back. Sutherland, seizing a 

 favourable opportunity, leaped off again and put 

 another bullet into the enraged beast. Thereupon, 

 the elephant, it seems, crushed some of the hunter's 

 ribs with his trunk and killed two of his native 

 boys. The disaster occurred towards the end 

 of August." 



I have often indulged in a hearty laugh over 

 the ludicrous picture called up by the idea of my 

 waiting for a favourable opportunity before leaping 

 off an enraged elephant's back. 



