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Show He Lost His Elephant In tho Globe Trotter of Nairobi Ililtlsh East Africa, a traveler tclll how he shot, but lost, an elephant "Tho nnthlll wo were trying to hide behind was so small that wo had tc take our hats off to be out of sight. 1 took a look over the top and nearly lost my breath by discovering thai tho elephants were coming right townrd us. The male was walking first, holding his magnificent head high In the air, and spreading hit enormous ears straight out as If tc catch the wind, and looked for all th( world llko some pirate ship coming down with all sails set leady to put us out of existence. Tho female came behind In the snmo fashion. 1 turned to the shikari behind me and said 'Good heavens! They aro comlnp right down on us!" nnd at the same time looked round for n snfer plnco hut there was nono The shikari mo tloned mo to Ho down and not tc speak, and urged, 'flood Bhoot, good shoot.' I whispered to Mnrlow: 'II they come now I won't be ablo to shoot, my heart Is beating too fast.' Ills niiMver did not tend to Improve my condition much. He only replied, 'Iluck up. mnn; they are coming.' 1 had a double-barreled ten-bore and solid bullets with eordtto behind. It wns tho onlj elephant gun In the party. par-ty. Tho shooting thereforo was left with me, and I had never fired a ten boro In my llfo before. "If those blessed brutes would only sheer off a bit to tho right or tp the lift Instead of coming down to Invcs tlgato that llttlo Innocent wart in front of us It would bo some cousola tlon. Hut not they: on they came. tllllllmg till- lllllll IIIILU1I,H,U.C sounds through their trunks and holding hold-ing straight down on us. I began tc wonder whether they would go round over tho hill It was only cae step for that fellow anyhow and If they were L'olnir round what sldn woulil 'hov take? I dodged from one side to the other until they were within twenty yards of us, rind then to my relief It was evident that they wero going to pass on the right side, and It wasn't many seconds beforo tho big follow sauntered leisurely round tho hill within flvo yards of me and apparently apparent-ly looked sleoplly down on us, Fortunately For-tunately an elephant's sight Is very bad, nndl really don't t'-ink he saw ns. I lay flat on my stomach and had grent difficulty in getting the gun ele-vnted ele-vnted sufficiently to get n sight at his temple. I nt Inst succet .rl, however, and let fly. In my anxiety to kill at once 1 pulled both triggers. "The report was like tho boom from a cannon and the recoil simply doubled dou-bled me up llko a concertina, while the breech lever of tho rlflo struck the bridge. of my noso and Bldo of my face so powerfully that it mado mo Insensible Insen-sible for n con pi o of seconds and mado mo bleed profusely. I staggered to my feet while Mnrlow and tho shl-knrl shl-knrl both emptied their guns Into the brute's head. One would think this sufficient to kill half a dozen elephants, ele-phants, hut this ono stood dazed for n few moments und then, Instead of toppling over as It ought to have done, It throw Itself completely around and, taking Its mato along, mr.de off for the woods as fast as It could go, leaving much blood behind." |
