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elephant is about as much like his African brother 
as a tomcat is like a tiger. 
Many African hunters consider elephant hunting 
more dangerous than lion, rhino, or buffalo hunt¬ 
ing, any one of which can hardly be called an indoor 
sport. These are the four animals that are classed 
as “royal game” in game law parlance, and each 
Being Killed by an Elephant Is a Very Mussy Death 
one when aroused is sufficiently diverting to dis¬ 
pel any lassitude produced by the climate. It is 
wakeful sport—hunting these four kinds of game 
—and in my experience elephant hunting is the 
“most wakefullest” of them all. 
In my several months of African hunting I 
had four different encounters with elephants. The 
first two were on Mount Kenia and the last two 
