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with his ineffective weapon. The elephant 

 stopped his devilish work for a moment, 

 seized the native by an arm, and threw him 

 away with such force as to tear the arm from 

 the body. This man still lives on the coast 

 an example of extreme devotion. 



The resident wrote me about an amusing 

 incident which happened to another officer, 

 while on a shooting expedition, some months 

 after we had left the country. This English- 

 man was awakened out of a sound sleep in 

 the middle of the night, and quickly realized 

 that some large animal had firmly closed his 

 jaws on his arm, and was trying to pull him 

 out of bed. He instinctively threw his other 

 arm around the further side of the light cot 

 bed, and the next tug sent everything down 

 in a heap. He knew by this time the animal 

 was a lion, and was much relieved when the 

 beast, becoming rattled, snatched up the pil- 

 low instead of the man, and made off with it. 

 The writer added that the officer was not 

 much hurt, but was very indignant. 



A little more luck still awaited me in the 

 green grass country, for it was here I fell in 

 with some lesser kudu antelope, an animal of 

 great beauty, and rarely seen. As my shikari 



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