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LIFE OF C. KOK. 
happened to fall over the stump of a tree, which 
he had not observed. The elephant hearing the 
plunge into the water made towards him, but he 
escaped under some bushes growing in the river. 
The animal perceiving this ran over the bushes, 
beating them down with his feet and trunk. He 
was at one time under the belly of the creature, 
and in attempting to rise, his hands touched the 
legs of the huge animal. Getting clear from the 
bushes, he succeeded in lodging a bullet in the 
elephant ; in consequence of which it ran off ; but 
loading and firing a second time, he wounded it 
mortally; it fell into the water, and soon after 
died. He well remembered another occasion, on 
which he unexpectedly came in contact with a 
tiger among some rocks and bushes, he called to 
his dog for assistance, but seeing the tiger ready 
to make a spring at him, he hastily wrapped his 
great coat about his head. The tiger made the ' 
spring and caught him by the head with its 
mouth, while its claws entered into both his 
legs, but the great coat incommoding the animal, 
and the dog continuing to bark, the tiger left 
him. As the ferocious beast was going away, 
Cornelius fired his musket and killed him. 
He said, that in his younger days the Krooman, 
in the Great Desert, was a wide and strong river, 
reaching above his middle, and that in crossing 
it they were obliged to carry over the children. 
