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that could be found, and buried them near the 
spring. The enraged animal had not only trampled 
his body literally to pieces, but could not feel its 
vengeance satisfied till it had pounded the very 
flesh into the dust, so that nothing of the unfor¬ 
tunate man remained excepting a few of the larger 
bones.” 
Many and many are the extraordinary escapes 
that people have had from wounded and infuriated 
elephants. That of Lieutenant Moodie, as recorded 
by himself, is perhaps amongst the most remarkable. 
After telling us that in the year 1821 he had re¬ 
cently joined the semi-military settlement of Fred¬ 
ericksburg, on the picturesque banks of the Gualana, 
beyond the great Fish Fiver, and that on the pre¬ 
ceding day the party had shot a female elephant 
he goes on to say : 
“ On the following morning, one of our servants 
came to inform us that a large troop of elephants 
was in the neighbourhood of the settlement, and 
that several of our people were already on the way 
to attack them. I instantly set off to join the 
hunters, but, from losing my way in the jungle 
through which I had to proceed, I could not over¬ 
take them until after they had driven the elephants 
from their first station. On getting out of the 
jungle I was proceeding through an open meadow 
on the banks of the Gualana, to the spot where I 
heard the firing, when I was suddenly warned of 
approaching danger, by loud cries of pas-of! (look 
out!) coupled with my name in Dutch and English, 
and at the same moment I heard the crackling of 
