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enormous old tusker with heavy ivory, and that he 
had marked him into his resting-place for the day. 
Enthusiasm rose to fever pitch, and in five minutes we 
were off, Archer, having now completed his “ shauris ” 
(palaver) with the Njemusi chiefs, being able to 
accompany me. I was glad of this, for I was totally 
unequipped as regards weapons for such heavy and 
dangerous game, my most powerful rifle being a double 
*303. That the *303 is quite capable of killing the 
African elephant I am well aware ; Mr. F. C. Selous has 
A MOUSE-GREY COLY ( Colius ) AT NJEMPS. 
proved that, and for many years my late friend Arthur 
Neumann “ used no other.” But these are exceptionally 
practised hunters, of lifelong experience, and in choosing 
this small bore they relied also upon choosing their 
shots. It is a very different matter for an amateur for 
the first (and perhaps the only) time in his life to 
withstand the onset of an enraged elephant with so tiny 
a tool. I speak from knowledge, for I did it, and owe 
it merely (under Providence) to a flaw in a fickle, 
shifty wind that I am here to write the experience. 
Archer, however, had a single *400, a far more powerful 
weapon. 
