40 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER ch. iii 
“3rd October , 1908, Lindi. From our correspond¬ 
ent. Sutherland, the elephant hunter, has been 
seriously injured between Songea and Sassawara. 
He had the good fortune to bag three elephants. 
A fourth animal, which he had wounded, pursued 
him furiously, seized him with his trunk and flung 
him up on his back. Sutherland, seizing a 
favourable opportunity, leaped off again and put 
another bullet into the enraged beast. Thereupon, 
the elephant, it seems, crushed some of the hunter’s 
ribs with his trunk and killed two of his native 
boys. The disaster occurred towards the end 
of August.” 
I have often indulged in a hearty laugh over 
the ludicrous picture called up by the idea of my 
waiting for a favourable opportunity before leaping 
off an enraged elephant’s back. 
