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it; his second rifle, a double 8 bore, failed to act; and the 
elephant seized him in its trunk. It brandished him to and 
fro in the air several times, and then planting him on the 
ground knelt and stabbed at him with its tusks. Grasping 
one of its forelegs he pulled himself between them in 
time to avoid the blow; and as it rose he managed to seize 
a hind leg and clung to it. But the tusker reached round 
and plucked him off with its trunk, and once more bran¬ 
dished him high in the air, swinging him violently about. 
He fainted from pain and dizziness. When he came to 
he was lying on the ground; one of his attendants had 
stabbed the elephant with a spear, whereupon the animal 
had dropped the white man, vainly tried to catch its new 
assailant, and had then gone off for some three miles and 
died. Hutchinson was frightfully bruised and strained, 
and it was six months before he recovered. 
