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flotilla himself. Captain Hutchinson was a mighty 
hunter, and had met with one most extraordinary 
experience while elephant hunting; in Uganda the 
number of hunters who have been killed or injured by 
elephants and buffaloes is large. He wounded a big 
bull in the head, and followed it for three days. The 
wound was serious, and on the fourth day he overtook 
the elephant. It charged as soon as it saw him. He 
hit it twice in the head with his *450 double barrel as it 
came on, but neither stopped nor turned 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 fore-legs he pulled himself between 
them in time to avoid the blow; and as it rose he 
managed to seize a hind-leg and cling to it. But the 
tusker reached round and plucked him off with its 
trunk, and once more brandished 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. 
