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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XXIII. 
deserves it too, of having saved not only his own life 
but those of the party also, for when the elephant got 
the two balls in the head he shut his eyes, shook his 
great head, and swerved to the left; and it was then 
that Currie raised his gun and put the ball (quarter of 
a pound weight) behind the ear, and the great monster 
fell to the ground, ploughing its great tusks some six 
feet into the earth. It is strange to say that not another 
ball had hit the elephant, although he was not twenty 
yards off and as big as a haystack. As the monster was 
still struggling His Koyal Highness put a couple more 
balls into his carcass, and that shout arose which 
success alone can produce. 
The Grovernor and party had been looking on, and 
the heart of more than one came into his throat when 
they saw the great beast charging down on the Prince 
in the open, and could not tell at the distance they 
were how the affair had terminated. 
The position was certainly a most critical one. We 
were standing in heather up to our knees, so that it 
would have been impossible to get out of the way had 
the monster not been brought down. When the 
elephant was lying on its side the Prince had to stand 
upon a man’s shoulders before he could get on to the 
carcass, where he opened his flask, and we all took a 
6 nip ’ to the success of the day. 
The Hottentot after-rider was seen no more for the 
