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owing to the screening vegetation, I decided to 

 await developments, hoping to get a better view if 

 they came nearer, or moved further away from us. 

 After twenty minutes of patient watchfulness up in 

 my uncomfortable quarters, one of the four, having 

 apparently got a whiff of our scent, began moving 



HARTEBEESTE (dicklenstein}. 



his proboscis about in all directions, and feeling that 

 any further delay might prove fatal, I decided to 

 risk a shot and trust to luck to penetrate his brain, 

 or spine. As the tree, however, presented serious 

 obstacles to the easy manipulation of a heavy rifle, 

 I got my tracker to hand me up my 1075 an< ^> 

 judging the position of the restive elephant's brain, 

 as well as conditions would allow, I fired ; but the 



