ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN ABYSSINIA. 
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either case, he remains incapable of advancing a 
step till the horseman’s return, or until his com¬ 
panions, coming up, pierce the brute through with 
javelins and lances; he then falls to the ground, and 
expires from loss of blood. 
“ The Aggajeer nearest me presently lanced his 
elephant, and left him standing. Ayto Engedan, 
Ay to Confu, Guebra Marram, and several others, 
fixed their spears in the other before the Aggajeer 
had cut his tendons. My Aggajeer, however, 
having wounded the first elephant, failed in the 
pursuit of the second; and being close upon him at 
the entrance of the wood, he received a violent blow 
from the branch of a tree which the elephant had 
bent with his weight, and, after passing, allowed it 
to replace itself, when it knocked down both the 
riders and very much hurt the horse. This, indeed, 
is the great danger in elephant-hunting; for some 
of the trees that are dry and short break by the 
violent pressure of so immense a body moving with 
such rapidity, and fall upon the pursuer, or across the 
road. But the greatest number of these trees being 
of a succulent quality, they bend without breaking, 
and return quickly to their former position, when 
they strike both horse and rider so violently that 
they often beat them to pieces.” 
The above account of Bruce’s, as to the manner in 
which the elephant is killed in Abyssinia, has re¬ 
cently been most fully corroborated by Sir Samuel 
Baker, who, as it has been said, not only made the ac¬ 
quaintance of certain of the “ Aggajeers,” the famous 
Nimrods spoken of by Bruce, but hunted for a con- 
