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THE ELEPHANT. 
electric fluid, though it often occasions the death of 
the smaller kinds of game. The natives, however, 
assured me' that the occurrence was not at all an 
imfrequent one during the rainy season. They had 
once stumbled, they told me, upon the remains of a 
full-grown male, whose head had been completely 
severed from the body by a thunder-stroke, and all 
his bones completely smashed. 
