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enormous old tusker with heavy ivory, and that he 

 had marked him into his resting-place for the day. 

 Enthusiasm rose to fever pitch, and in five minutes we 

 were off, Archer, having now completed his " shauris " 

 (palaver) with the Njemusi chiefs, being able to 

 accompany me. I was glad of this, for I was totally 

 unequipped as regards weapons for such heavy and 

 dangerous game, my most powerful rifle being a double 

 *303. That the '303 is quite capable of kilHng the 

 African elephant I am well aware ; Mr. F. C. Selous has 





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proved that, and for many years my late friend Arthur 

 Neumann " used no other." But these are exceptionally 

 practised hunters, of lifelong experience, and in choosing 

 this small bore they relied also upon choosing their 

 shots. It is a very diff'erent matter for an amateur for 

 the first (and perhaps the only) time in his life to 

 withstand the onset of an enraged elephant with so tiny 

 a tool. I speak from knowledge, for I did it, and owe 

 it merely (under Providence) to a flaw in a fickle, 

 shifty wdnd that I am here to write the experience. 

 Archer, however, had a single '400, a far more powerful 

 weapon. 



