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the shot struck him he slewed round and charged 
us like lightning. Having no time to reload, I 
dropped my heavy rifle and, snatching my 1075 
from Ntawasie, who, with Malingum, now rushed 
to the rear for dear life, I sent my first shot full in 
the elephant’s face, but the bullet had absolutely no 
ELEPHANT WHICH NEARLY KILLED ME. 
stopping effect, and on he came, the very embodi¬ 
ment of malign fury ! When he was almost on me, 
I drove a second bullet into his skull and brought 
him down, only three yards from where I stood, 
and ere he could rise, I finished him with a third. 
My post-mortem on the animal revealed to me 
that the heart shot that I had attempted with my 
•577 had struck him too high and too far back, while 
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