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8-bore 100 lai^ge cartridges with conical 4 ounce 1 drachm 

 bullets (8 drachms of powder), for elephants and rhino- 

 ceroses. 



Express 577 1600 express bullet cartridges (6 drachms of 

 powder), with copper tube, weighing 1 ounce 2 drachms. 

 800 cartridges with solid bullets, ordinary lead, of 

 1 ounce 5 drachms. 



Express 303 (Metford) 500 cartridges, with solid bullets of 

 great penetration for defence or shots at the head (hippo- 

 potami, elephants, rhinoceroses), weighing 7 drachms. 



^Cartridges with Jeffery bullet (8 drachms). 

 9inr> J " with hollow bullet (7 drachms). 



I ,, with soft-nosed solid bullet (7 drachms). 



I with soft-nosed express bullet (7 drachms). 



Let me say a word or two to explain these various 

 kinds of bullets. The solid bullets are like those 

 of the Lebel rifle, completely 

 covered with nickel. The Jeff- 

 ery bullets are truncated at the 

 point, and present longitudinal SOLID 303. 



holes which enable them to spread out ; they 

 are what have recently been called Dum-Dum. 

 The hollow differ from them in not being split ; 

 on the other hand there is a hollow space from the 

 point to the middle, and this is filled with wax. The 

 soft-nosed solid have a nickel envelope only three- 

 quarters of the way up, fixed in such a manner that at 

 the point the lead is bare. The soft-nosed express are 

 made in the same way, but their apex is hollow and 

 filled either with wax or with a copper tube. Of the 

 last four kinds, taken with me so that I might 

 try them, and submitted to many and conclusive 

 tests, I have retained only two the hollow and the 

 soft-nosed express, both of which have cavities filled 



