CHAP. XXIIT. 
THE ELEPHANT-HUNT. 
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remainder of the day. When the elephant diverted his 
charge from him to us the 4 Tottie ’ passed by like a 
rocket, went over the rise on the other side of the hollow, 
and never pulled rein until he reached the camp. 
During all this time the hunters from the other 
side had been following up the first elephant, and had 
fired about twenty shots into him without bringing him 
down ; and one of the hunters came across to us, saying, 
4 Now is the time for the Prince to shoot an elephant,’ 
for they had got the first elephant so weary with the 
number of balls fired into him that the Duke might have 
gone up and shot him without danger. 4 No,’ said His 
Eoyal Highness, 4 1 have shot my elephant in the open, 
and anybody else that likes may go and shoot the other 
one.’ A number of persons did go, and after firing 
about fifty more shots into the poor beast he was 
brought to the ground. 
Before leaving the elephant shot by the Prince a 
question arose as to what was to be done with him. I 
suggested that he should be skinned whole, but the 
Governor laughed at the idea, and said it was quite 
impossible to skin so great a beast. It was not, how¬ 
ever, the first elephant that I had skinned and taken the 
ivory from, so I called for volunteers from the farmers 
and people about, who soon produced their knives, and 
we set to work. The hunters were all delighted to see 
His Royal Highness throw off his jacket, turn up his 
