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tusk is repaired l)y the forniation of secondary dentine, 

 and the ofi'ending liody is enca]xsuled by the same 

 materiah As the tiislc advances in its socket, tlie 

 bullet is gradually incorporated in solid ivory. The 

 thorough way in Avhieli a bullet may l)e emljedded in 

 the solid part of an elephant's tusk, and no mark 

 betray it, is proved by the fact that one has been found 

 in a l)illiard l)all. Such a specimen is preserved 

 in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 England. 



These things happened in the da}'s of muskets and 

 black powder : the introduction of the rifle and high 

 velocity l)ullets has completely clumged ele|)hant- 

 shooting. African elephants are often killed by a 

 single well-placed Indlet. Compare this with the 

 description of the shooting of the famous elephant 

 Chunee in 1826 at Exeter Change, a wild beast show 

 off the Strand near the Lyceum. Chunee bcca,me 

 dangerous and a detachment of infautr}^ was employed 

 to kill him : one hundred bullets were fired into the 

 wretched animal for this purpose. The skeleton of this 

 elephant is preserved in the museum of the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons, England. When the skull was 

 examined after the skeleton had been macerated a large 

 aliscess was found at the root of one of the teeth, which 

 partly accounted for the trouble Chunee caused the 

 keepers. 



When we reflect on the agony hiurian l:)eiugs suft'er in 

 consequence of an aljscess in the I'ulp of a molar tooth, 

 it appears difficult to estimate the suftering endured 

 liy an elephant when the pulp of a tusk is inflamed. 



It is possible for a solid Ijody to enter the pulp 

 chamljer without penetrating the wall of the tusk. The 

 oj^en end of the tusk looks upwards, and as the natives 

 have a way, among others, of killing elephants by 

 dropping a heavy loaded spear upon them from a tree, 

 or as the result of a trap, it sometimes happens that 

 the spear penetrates the open end of the tusk and is 



