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to pass to windward of us. The young bull, however, observed 
the fire; he at once walked up to it, and, smelling at it with 
his trunk, seemed extremely amused, and in a gamboling 
humor threw his trunk about, as if not knowing what to 
think of it. The larger bull now came up and exposed a 
fine broadside; we took him behind the shoulder and fired 
together; on receiving the shots; he wheeled about and held 
west with drooping ears, evidently mortally wounded. 
Some time after this I detected an enormous old bull 
elephant approaching from the west. If we lay still where 
we were, he must in a few minutes get our wind, so we 
jumped up and ran forward out of his line of march. 
Here a borélé opposed our further progress, and we had 
to stone him out of our way. The elephant came on, and 
presently got the wind of where we had been lying. This 
at once seemed to awake his suspicions, for he stood still 
among the trees, stretching his trunk from side to side to 
catch the scent, and doubtful whether he should advance or 
retreat. We then ran toward him, and stalked in within 
forty yards of where he stood, and, taking up a position 
behind a bush, awaited his forward movement. The elephant 
came slowly forward, and J thought would pass to windward 
of us, when he suddenly altered his course, and walked boldly 
forward right for where we stood. He came on until within 
seven or eight yards, when I coughed loudly to turn him. 
He tossed up his trunk and turned quickly round to fly; as 
he turned, however, we fired together, when the elephant 
uttered a shrill cry of distress, and crashed away, evidently 
hard hit. When this bull was standing before us, we both 
remarked that he was the finest we had seen that night: his 
tusks were extremely long, thick, and very unusually wide set. 
We now returned to the fountain, and once more lay down 
to watch. Rhinoceroses, both black and white, were parading 
around us all night in every direction. We had lain but 
a short time when I detected a single old bull elephant 
