170 COLONEL ROOSEVELT A REMARKABLE HUNTER. 
were able to make out the backs of the elephants through the tower¬ 
ing reeds. Roosevelt’s elephant gun, firing explosive shells, was in 
the camp. Selous advised him in aiming and he sent half a dozen 
bullets into the ''tusker.” 
The elephant charged the hre, and went down on its knees close 
to the tree. Then at a distance of about forty feet Roosevelt struck 
the heart, and it went over dead. The rest of the herd tore wildly 
through the thicket in retreat. Kermit trying several shots, but 
without effect. The baby elephant was captured an hour afterward 
by the natives in Roosevelt’s caravan. 
MOST INVISIBLE OF FOREST CREATURES. 
The African elephant is spread over a very wide range of 
country, extending from Senegal and Abyssinia to the borders of 
the Cape Colony. Several conditions are required for its existence, 
such as water, dense forests, and the absence of human habitations. 
Although it is very abundant in the locality which it inhabits, 
it is not often seen by casual travelers, owing to its great vigilance 
and its wonderful power of moving through the tangled forests 
without noise and without causing any perceptible agitation of the 
foliage. 
In spite of its enormous dinxensions, it is one of the most invis¬ 
ible of forest creatures, and a herd of elephants, of eight or nine 
feet in height, may stand within a few feet of a hunter without being 
detected by him, even though he is aware of their presence. At a 
certain season of the year these animals are seized with a ferocity 
which renders them intractable, and formidable. 
Camp was broken the following day and Col. Roosevelt and his 
party began their march of fifty miles northeast to the Ju Ja ranch 
of William McMillan, a nephew of former United States Senator 
McMillan, of Michigan. The Roosevelt party was the guests of 
Mr. McMillan, hunting daily in the vicinity of the ranch. 
Years ago Mr. McMillan went to British East Africa in search 
of big game and was so well pleased with the country that he 
acquired an immense reservation for his private use. He has also 
