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impending danger. However that may be, he had 

 made the effort in no half-hearted fashion, for, on 

 examination, I found that one of his tusks had 

 punctured a small hole in the neck, and the other 

 had created a horrible wound in the abdomen, 

 through which the outer covering of the intestines 



THREE ELEPHANTS SHOT. 



protruded in a bunch of skin and fat. Failing to 

 effect his purpose, he was about to bolt, when a 

 couple of bullets brought him down beside the 

 prostrate bulk of the companion, for whom he had 

 deliberately and unselfishly dashed back in the very 

 face of the enemy. 



Deciding to try to bag the third elephant, who, 

 in the meantime, had bolted towards the Njenjie 



