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the shot struck him he slewed round and charged 

 us like lightning. Having no time to reload, I 

 dropped my heavy rifle and, snatching my 1075 

 from Ntawasie, who, with Malingum, now rushed 

 to the rear for dear life, I sent my first shot full in 

 the elephant's face, but the bullet had absolutely no 



ELEPHANT WHICH NEARLY KILLED ME. 



stopping effect, and on he came, the very embodi- 

 ment of malign fury ! When he was almost on me, 

 I drove a second bullet into his skull and brought 

 him down, only three yards from where I stood, 

 and ere he could rise, I finished him with a third. 



My post-mortem on the animal revealed to me 

 that the heart shot that I had attempted with my 

 577 had struck him too high and too far back, while 



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