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CAREL KRIEGER TRAMPLED BY AN ELEPHANT. 
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less*; there was no choice left, but to travel day and night till we 
reached some spring. 
Without delay, the drivers clap their long whips, and, in a tone 
of voice half-expressive of ill-temper from their disappointment, 
loudly call out to the oxen. Loop ! and instantly the whole of the 
caravan are again in motion. 
As we walked on, I enquired the story of Caret Kriegers fate. 
He was an indefatigable and fearless hunter ; and, being also an 
excellent marksman, often ventured into the most dangerous situ- 
ations. One day, near this spot, having with his party, pursued an 
elephant which he had wounded, the irritated animal suddenly 
turned round, and, singling out from the rest the person by whom 
he had been wounded, seized him with his trunk, and, lifting his 
wretched victim high in the air, dashed him with dreadful force to the 
ground. His companions, struck with horror, fled precipitately from 
the fatal scene, unable to turn their eyes to behold the rest of the 
tragedy. But on the following day they repaired to the spot, where 
they collected the few bones that could be found, and buried them 
near the spring. The enraged animal had not only trampled his 
body literally to pieces, but could not feel its vengeance satisfied till 
it had pounded the very flesh into the dust, so that nothing of this 
unfortunate man remained, excepting a few of the larger bones. 
Such is the sad story, as it was related to me on the spot where it 
happened. * 
At Carel Krieger's Grave we passed a narrow chain of low 
mountains, which divides the Karreebergen Plain from a similar and 
not less extensive, one. Over this unvaried wide expanse, we con- 
tinued travelling without intermission, or without even once slacken- 
ing our pace. The hunters no longer cared to pursue the game, which 
often approached, as if to tempt us to the chace : waier occupied all 
our thoughts. The sun at length departed, but no moon succeeded to 
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* Some account of this unfortunate man has already been given under the date of the 
7th of July, at page 201. 
