Show HUNTED BY WILD ELEPHANT Carl E. E Akeley E. Naturalist Relates Relate Experience Ex Ex- of Being Attacked by Macs Mas- Mas s Ive ve South African Beast The hunter and taxidermist Carl E. E A Akeley eley who has spent a n great deal of painstaking effort In preparing preparing- the Wonderful animal groups nt at the American Amen Ameri can cnn Museum of at Natural History is known throughout South Africa as ns an nn elephant hunter He has hns had hud man many thrilling experiences one of at which he describes scribes in the New York Sun as follows fol fol- lows Elephants are no more conspicuous In n their own country than Jack rabbits 11 are In theirs They are the color of the shadows in the forest and almost as Indistinguishable Intelligence and vindictiveness are two of their most prominent char characteristics lt When one knows vs he la is being hunted he will He lie In wait still as a rock and looking much like one and will hunt his hunter n na as asa s sa a dog hunts a rat I I had cut a big bull out from a herd I and anti was following his spoor knowing i well enough that he was wasl lying ln in wait for tor me somewhere The big beast asit as asI asIt I I It turned out afterwards got my ray wind windas windi i a as I was stalking him and was search search- searching ing lag for me I mus muss musj have got within ten or twenty feet of ot him because I remembered art afterward that I 1 heard a swift rush but did not catch sight of at him coming The first I knew of his presence was wasa a quick vision Islon of his trunk as as he knocked me down Then I caught on one one glimpse of at his little eyes as he curled up his trunk out of ot the way and tr tried d to impale me with his tusks I had Just time to grasp a tusk with my left hand and twist myself so that my body was between the two shafts hafts of at ivory I felt the Impact of ot his tusks as they dug dUi into the ground on either side of at me and his heavy nose crushed against my cheat chest That is all I 1 re re- member My hunter fortunately shot him dead as as 89 he was preparing for another thrust I was VIlS unconscious as ns they carried car tied ried me to the camp where I lay for three months with my chest cheat so crushed that it was doubtful whether or not I should live |