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Hunter's Stories of African Jungle, To bag a braco of rocketing pheasants with a loft and right in tho ambition which a sportsman soldom roalises but what is one to say of a huntor, who with two similar shots from a ride kills a couple of oléphants?
for the dead roached his care from the native camp, and on inquiry ho found that the morgosnt was dead.
By an incredibly tragio coin. oidanco. the same bullot that had killed the elephant had killed the soldier, who had not obeyed orders and was on the far side of the hord when the shot was fired. It was almost unbelievable that the boast should have been hit where the bullet could ponetrato and still continue with killing)
This feat is donoribod by Mr. Frank Savila in his latent volume,
The High Grass Trail" (Wither-forco on to a now target. by). Mr. Lowis Moggridge, a local Commissioner in East- Africa, was the horo of the exploit, He was standing a yard beyond me and a couple of foot higher when a dun-gray object swung suddenly up into view about 20 yards to his left. The trunk, the domod forehead and the lower portion of an elephant's tusk hung for a moment, at it woro. above the great surface of the roods.
MYSTERIOUS ANIMATION. The vitality of wild animals when they have been mortally wounded is wonderful.
Lowis's rifle came to his shoulder. The report shaftorod the jungle siloncon and wont' clanging into the oohoon It was as if a mansion toppled into ruin rather than a more animal. Tho groat brute wont lurching and crashing down.
I halted, turned about again and was just in time to soo him
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moment I thought the shat was a coup de grace to the brute which had already fallon, but it was at a new target. Another of the herd; blundering aside from the wounded animal as it foll, had burst for a fraction of a second in, our view, and Lewis had fired his 90cond-barrel at it."
PENALTY OF DISORDEDIENCE.
The first animal had fallen in his tracks with a bullet in the brain, but the other required a good deal of tracking by the| blood spoor before it was found, It lay dead in a reed coppice within 100 yards of the first, and had been shot through the lungs. An extraordinary incident cama to Mr. Savilo's nolice during the same trip and also concorned an alophant.
One dark evening the Roaid ent at Boua was told that a herd word raiding the Residency gardens. Ho took his rifle, sum moned a sorgoant and another native soldior and stationed them at a particular spot. Then, with Bomo difficulty in the darkness, ho found the herd and put a bullet into a beast that blundered off to dio, while the others dispersed. Ho had not long roturned to his house when the sound of wailing,
'On one occasion, meat-hunt- ing in the Vipya Hills, I saw a wart-hog intently grubbing on an open slopo. He was so engrossed in his business that I had no difficulty, in approaching him
70 within
yards, whon I sat down and fired leisurely,
Ho ahot into the air and camo charging down the hilleldo at an incredible rato of spood. His huge tusks sbono liko spoarpoints] in tho glare of the morning sun.] I was annoyed at such a miss and. waited till ho was within 30 yards before I fired again. He appeared to swerve from the bullot, tore on, down the hillside and disappear. just after I fired again.
My boys found him dead 100' I oxamined yarda farther on. him with curiosity. Ho had two wounds through the heart and ano: through the base of the stomach. And he had ran liko an express train for something. like 400 yards!
Anothor timo a bull eland, shot clean through the heart, covered a quarter of a mile before ho foll dead. Most animals reel ever to the heart shot or jump forward. to fall instantly in their tracks.
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