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He fired both barrels into it as it came on, but it charged 
home, knocked him down, killed his gun-bearer, and made 
its escape into the forest. In the forlorn little graveyard 
at the station were the graves of two white men who had 
been killed by elephants. One of them, named Stoney, 
had been caught by a wounded bull, which stamped the 
life out of him and then literally dismembered him, tearing 
his arms from his body. In the African wilderness, when a 
man dies, his companion usually brings in something to 
show that he is dead, or some remnant of whatever it is 
that has destroyed him; the sailors whose companion was 
killed by falling out of the tree near our Lado camp, for 
instance, brought in the dead branch which had broken 
under his weight; and Stoney’s gun-bearer marched back 
to Nimule carrying an arm of his dead master, and depos¬ 
ited his grewsome burden in the office of the district 
commissioner. 
