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ELEPHANT. 
Reenen, <f Tjaart Yander Walt, Lodewyck Prins, 
and Ignatius Mulder, rode up to the thicket ; when 
rushing furiously out of his hiding place, he 
lashed his proboscis round the body of Prins, who 
was on horseback, dragged him off to the ground, 
and trod him to death ; then driving one of his 
tusks into his body, he threw him to the height of 
thirty feet into the air. The other two dismounting, 
hid themselves in the thicket. The elephant look^ 
ing round him, and perceiving only the horse of 
Yander Walt, began to follow it, but, presently 
turning about, walked up to the spot where the 
corpse of Prins was lying. At this instant our 
whole party renewed the attack, when, after receiv- 
ing several bullets, he again escaped into the thicket. 
Thinking that we should now see no more of him, 
we began to dig a grave for our unfortunate com- 
panion, when the elephant again rushed furiously 
upon us, drove the, whole party away, and remained 
triumphant over the dead body. At the distance 
of an hundred paces, Tjaart Yander Walt put a 
bullet into bis carcase, after which we all fired, 
when, having staggered for some time, he fell to the 
ground, and was put to death by the Hottentots.” 
These natives pretend to say, that whenever an 
elephant is provoked to kill his enemy, he tears the 
carcase in pieces, and devours it : at least, such is 
their conclusion, as no vestige of the remains is 
ever found on the spot. Perhaps it is more con- 
sistent to suppose, that he carries it away to some 
place of concealment. It is a common observation 
that, numerous as these animals are in many parts 
of Southern Africa, neither the tusks nor any part 
of their skeletons are ever found above ground, 
which has led to the conclusion, that the elephants 
must bury , their dead. Vander Kemp is inclined 
to believe the fact to be true. One of his party 
bavin g shot an elephant, they went the following 
