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impending danger. However that may be, he had 
made the effort in no half-hearted fashion, for, on 
examination, I found that one of his tusks had 
punctured a small hole in the neck, and the other 
had created a horrible wound in the abdomen, 
through which the outer covering of the intestines 
THREE ELEPHANTS SHOT. 
protruded in a bunch of skin and fat. Failing to 
effect his purpose, he was about to bolt, when a 
couple of bullets brought him down beside the 
prostrate bulk of the companion, for whom he had 
deliberately and unselfishly dashed back in the very 
face of the enemy. 
Deciding to try to bag the third elephant, who, 
in the meantime, had bolted towards the Njenjie 
