Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . r to get, and therefore more costly. The shooting of elephants has to be done just right, or disaster ensues,as the following story will show. A hunter in Uganda in Equatorial Africatried to bring down, with a single shot, an enormous bull elephant. He firedat long range, and the bullet failed to kill. Immediately the elephant HUNTING AND CATCHING WILD ELEPHANTS squealing with fury, charged the party of men. The hunter jumped toone side but his coat caught in some thick brambles. The elephant crashedpast him but not quite close enough to do him h
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . r to get, and therefore more costly. The shooting of elephants has to be done just right, or disaster ensues,as the following story will show. A hunter in Uganda in Equatorial Africatried to bring down, with a single shot, an enormous bull elephant. He firedat long range, and the bullet failed to kill. Immediately the elephant HUNTING AND CATCHING WILD ELEPHANTS squealing with fury, charged the party of men. The hunter jumped toone side but his coat caught in some thick brambles. The elephant crashedpast him but not quite close enough to do him harm. But the brambleswere torn asunder by the elephants great weight and the hunter was flunga couple of sommersaults, until he came against a tree with such force that itall but knocked his senses out. When he came back to consciousness hefound that the elephant had been killed by his headman, but not before it hadtrampled two of the natives to death and scattered the remainder. Themangled bodies bore terrible evidences of the elephants Near the ear or brain pan are about the only places that a bullet willstop a rush. A certain writer tells a story of having seen an elephant killedso suddenly, while running, that it rolled over completely just like a body came down with a crash that shook the earth and fell against agood sized tree which was snapped off a few feet above the ground asthrough it had been a sapling. The way in which elephants are taken alive is truly wonderful. Firstof all a huge corral, is made and surrounded by a stockade, built of the lagest HUNTING AND CATCHING WILD ELEPHANT lo^^ to be found. This stockade is immensely strong, for it is made to standthe rush of terror-stricken elephants. The stockade is covered throughoutits entire length with branches so that the elephants do not notice that it isa trap The corral is V shaped. At the point of V there is a gate whichieads to a large enclosure. This enclosure has a number of smaller onessepar
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