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the mountain, the Count surprised an old male standing alone 

 by the edge of the swamp. He did not fall till he had received 

 sixteen bullets in the body. As Count Teleki was pressing on 

 to the camp after this episode, he came quite suddenly in the 

 thicket by the brook upon another elephant bull, which he 

 brought down at a distance of thirty paces, with a charge in 

 the temple from the 577 Express rifle. An elephant mortally 

 wounded in the head always falls down on its side with 

 outstretched limbs, as if struck by lightning. 



Soon after we got into camp, some of our people who had 

 been wandering about brought news that there were other 

 elephants higher up the brook. Of course we were off at once, 

 but it was a long time before we found the little group, con- 

 sisting of three females, which were sleeping in the shade of 

 the trees. The Count left me to deal with them this time, and 

 I brought down two of the animals, whilst the third got away. 

 We found now, as often before, that elephants struck on the 

 head are often only stunned, and in this case the Count was 

 but just in time to despatch one of those which we thought 

 had been dead for some time. 



On one of the following days the Count scoured the 

 neighbourhood to get an idea of the kind of game native to 

 the district. He came upon some animals resembling zebras, 

 but different in many respects from those we had met with 

 hitherto. He was not, however, able to fire at any of them, 

 or to see them closely enough to define in what the differences 

 consisted. The Somal accompanying him declared with delight 

 that they were their zebras, and that therefore they could not 

 be very far from their own Somaliland. 



As far as I know, science recognises five kinds of zebra, 

 namely, (1) the quagga [Equus quagga), of a bay colour, with 

 stripes on the head, neck, and shoulders only, which became 

 extinct more than twenty-five years ago, and is of very rare 



