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elephants’ tenacity op life. 
had discharged raoro than ono spear at him. As they had no 
more, they sent for me to finish him. In order to put him 
at once out of pain, I went to within twonty yards, there 
being a bank between us which ho could not readily climb. 
1 rostod the gun upon an ant-hill, so as to tako a steady 
aim; but, though I fired twelvo two-ounce bullets (all I 
had) into different parts, 1 could not kill him. As it was 
becoming dark, I advised my men to let him stand, being 
sure of finding him dead in the morning; but, though wo 
searched all tho next day, and went mono than ten milos, 
wo nover saw him again. 1 mention this to young men 
who may think that they will bo able to hunt elephants 
on foot by adopting tho Ceylon practice of killing them 
by ono ball in tho brain. I bolievo that in Africa the 
practice of standing beforo an elephant, expecting to kill 
him with ono shot, would bo certain death to the hunter; 
and I would add for tho information of those who may 
think that, hocauso I mot ■with a great abundance of game 
hero, they also might find raro sport., that tho tsetse exists 
all along both banks of tho Zambesi, and thoro can ho no 
hunting by means of horsos. Hunting on foot in this climato 
is such excessively hard work that I feel certain tho keenest 
sportsman would very soon turn away from it in disgust 
I myself was rather glad, when furnished with tho oxcuso 
that I had no longer any bails, to hand over all tho hunting 
to my men, who had no more lovo for tho sport than myself, 
as they never engaged in it except when forced by hunger. 
Somo of them gave mo a hint to melt down my plato by 
asking if it were not load. I had two pewter plates and a 
piece of zinc, which I now molted into bullets. I also spent 
the remainder of my handkerchiefs in buying spears lot 
them. My men frequently surrounded herds of buffaloes 
and killed numbers of tho calves. 1, too, exerted myself 
greatly; but, as i am now obliged to shoot with the left 
arm, I am a bad shot, and this, with the lightness of the 
bullets, made me very unsuccessful. Tho more tho hunger, 
the less my success, invariably 
