TIGER SLAYER BY ORDER 



The next morning, being Joined by some of the Gada- 

 barsi elephant hunters, well mounted on excellent ponies, 

 we scoured the country for miles in search of the man-eater, 

 but failed to locate her. From her footprints, which at 

 first I mistook for a leopard's, she must have been quite a 

 small beast. 



I spent several days in these pleasant wilds, during 

 which time I bagged many oryx and hartebeest, also a 

 very fine cock ostrich. It was here, too, that I first met 

 with the Midgaons, or Bushmen, two of whom joined my 

 camp. They are an extremely hardy and primitive race 

 still using bows and poisoned arrows, and are wonderful 

 trackers. 



When hunting all day over extensive bushy plains, it 

 was extraordinary how these men, who acted as my guides, 

 would find their way through the labyrinth when there 

 was neither path, track nor landmark of any kind 

 apparent. 



One of the men I had engaged was with the late Mr. 

 Ingram, when the latter met his death from an elephant. 

 It appears that he was encamped at a spot not far from my 

 camp, and being at the time laid up with a sore heel, was 

 confined to his tent. 



The rest of the party had gone out, when some Somalis, 

 who had been grazing the baggage camels, came running 

 up to tell him that there was an elephant close to the camp. 

 To a true sportsman like Ingram this was an opportunity 

 not to be neglected. 



Quickly saddling his horse he rode off, armed with a 

 •450 Express — the only weapon left in camp. He j&red at 

 the elephant, whereupon the beast immediately charged. 

 Ingram wheeled his horse round and would no doubt have 

 got away, but the animal refused to face the spiky line 

 of aloes in front of him. The next instant the enraged 

 brute was upon Ingram, and sweeping him off the saddle 

 with his trunk tore him limb from limb. 



The rifle he had used was, as I have said, a -450 Express 

 which, with its light hollow bullet, is obviously unsuited for 

 such a thick-skinned animal as an elephant. In fact, 

 accidents of this kind which, unfortunately, so often happen 

 even to experienced hunters of dangerous game, may 

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