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luncheon carriers staying behind up a tree for 
safety. 
The jungle now became denser and the track 
difficult to follow, and all up hill. There was 
dead silence all around us and we knew not at 
what moment we should come on the herd. We 
slowly came to the spot where our trackers 
had seen the elephants, but there was no sign 
of them. They had evidently moved off. We 
crossed a depression in the ground where there 
was nothing but bamboos, some upright, others 
lying across our path, making our progress 
very slow. 
Gradually we emerged from it, each step 
taken with caution. The ground became steeper 
again and we took advantage of every opening 
between bamboo clumps, wild tapioca and trees 
to proceed. We again came to a slight clear¬ 
ing some few yards in extent, and my shikari 
was whispering to one of the trackers to go 
ahead and see if he could locate where the 
elephants were, and particularly where the 
longest tusker was, when suddenly in the dead 
silence we heard right in front of us some dis¬ 
tance ahead a terrific noise—trees coming 
down, and the crash of them coming closer and 
closer. 
My friend C. dived into a bamboo clump to 
my right front. I had barely time to get be¬ 
hind a small tree some twelve inches in 
diameter, where I tried to make myself as small 
as possible, when I saw the head and shoulders 
of a huge elephant making straight for me and 
directly over the bamboos where C. was lying. 
I threw up my rifle and fired as near as I could 
judge low down at the center of his forehead 
by the juncture of his trunk. My doing so 
brought the beast up all standing; its ears went 
out like a bat’s wings, and I shot again with 
my left barrel at the same spot. I threw out 
the empty cartridges, put in two more, tried to 
close the breech of my rifle and could not. I 
looked round for my second gun—my shikari 
had disappeared and there was no one in sight. 
As I turned my head back I was aware of a 
large cow elephant with a young one about four 
feet high standing right underneath her—both 
with their heads turned toward me and looking 
straight at me—some five and a half yards dis¬ 
tant. She trumpeted and came toward me. I 
could not close the breech and quite realized 
I was in a tight place. I turned and bolted, 
falling on my face a few feet away over some 
wild tapioca across my path and expecting that 
any second might be my last. 
During my flight and fall I was still wonder¬ 
ing why I could not close the breech of the 
rifle, and only after I was down did I realize 
that my rifle had not got rebounding locks, to 
which I was accustomed, and that before I 
could close the breech I must recock the ham¬ 
mers. In less time than it takes to relate I did 
so and stood up, only to find that all was 
silence around. 
My friend C. came out of the bamboos and 
stated that he had had the narrowest shave of 
his life, as he was actually waiting to roll over 
on one side or the other when the animal came 
over him, as he expected it must. 
The natives came up and stated that they hact 
seen eight elephants, which appeared to have 
charged right through us. We went forward 
and found a pool of blood twelve and a half 
yards from my tree, where the first elephant 
had been sighted, not two yards from the bam¬ 
boos. The second elephant had evidently 
missed sight of me when I fell, hence my escape 
from her. The one I shot was picked up three 
miles off with two bullets in its head, and so 
ended a most exciting day’s shooting. 
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