A LUCKY KILL. \J\ 



him off and getting him to shore I found I had fired 

 too high, just grazing him on the shoulders, and thus 

 paralysing him by the shock. 



That night in camp I set to work to prepare the fore- 

 feet of the elephant. We extracted as much of the flesh 

 and the bones as we could, and then washed the feet in 

 the river. 



I then painted them internally with arsenical soap, 

 and the Dyaks inserted a circular framework of hoops 

 of wood cut from a pliant kind of bough. Having thus 

 got the feet into the shape of footstools I carried them 

 with me on my return to the Residency on the following 

 day. I then made my Dyaks build a sort of elevated 

 gridiron out of sticks. Upon this I placed the feet, soles 

 upwards, and had smouldering fires of damp wood kept 

 up under them for four days. The smoke of the wood 

 and the heat of the sun combined had now stiffened the 

 feet sufficiently to enable me to remove the framework 

 from the interior. Care must be taken not to burn the 

 feet. 



I was now enabled to cut away the remaining portions 

 of flesh and small bones from the interior of the toes. I 

 then washed them with a solution of carbolic and water 

 in equal proportions, and exposed them to the sun for a 

 few days, after which I could kick them about like a foot- 

 ball. On my return to England Rowland Ward did the 

 rest. 



But perhaps some reader may ask : " What became of 

 the case in court, of the native chiefs, of the musketry, 

 and of the circuit? " 



As for the case. The defendant had to marry the 

 plaintiff, and they lived together happily ever afterwards. 

 The native chiefs were interviewed, and having relieved 



