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THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
pliant which had treed a hunter, deliberately constructed a platform in the 
hope of reaching its adversary. 
An African hunter got lost in an elephant jungle, and was scented by 
the herd, but for the time being the hunter remained undiscovered. He was 
making the best of his way along an elephant path, when he suddenly came 
upon a hippopotamus, to which he conceded the right of way, although imme¬ 
diately thereafter he shot it as a proper punishment. After three days he 
came directly upon one of the elephants, and although the bullet knocked it 
over, it got up and made off. He found it again, and the elephant charged 
upon him, only to receive 
a fresh bullet. Again 
tracked, shot while charg¬ 
ing and brought to his 
knees, although still able 
to stumble to its feet 
it was powerless to do 
more than to stand still 
while the hunter finished 
it. On one occasion a 
hunter ensconced him¬ 
self in a tree, and while 
twenty elephants were 
defiling beneath him, 
broke a bull’s shoulder 
with a single shot. 
One of the most re¬ 
markable things about an 
elephant is the entire 
noiselessness with which 
it is able to move its 
vast bulk, even when 
pushing its way through 
the densest thorn. Once 
a hunter shot an ele¬ 
phant and was horrified 
to hear the shrill trum¬ 
peting of a whole herd 
by which, without his 
knowledge, he was sur¬ 
rounded. He was com¬ 
pelled to seek safety in the hollow of a fallen tree, and the elephants after 
vain attempts to extract him from his hive, finally relieved his mind by their 
unwilling departure. 
CONIES (Hyrocoidea). 
Though the Conies were known to the great Greek naturalist, Aristotle, 
and are mentioned in the Bible in Proverbs : “ The high hills are a refuge for 
the wild goats, and the rocks for the conies ,” it was reserved for Agassiz to 
re-discover the cony , so to speak, and bring it within the boundary of well- 
understood animals. This creature we now know quite well, though frbm its 
