Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . escape. Manycases have occurred of elephants which have been regarded as dead suddenlyrecovering themselves and making oft1. The three chief shots at the elephants brain are: the front (or forehead)shot; the side (or temple) shot; and the rear (or behind the ear) shot. Theillustrations of heads in different positions will assist to explain them. Should the sportsman and the elephant be standing on tolerably levelground, and the el
Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . escape. Manycases have occurred of elephants which have been regarded as dead suddenlyrecovering themselves and making oft1. The three chief shots at the elephants brain are: the front (or forehead)shot; the side (or temple) shot; and the rear (or behind the ear) shot. Theillustrations of heads in different positions will assist to explain them. Should the sportsman and the elephant be standing on tolerably levelground, and the elephant be facing the sportsman with its head in its naturalposition, a shut in the centre of the forehead towards the top of the bumpat the base of tlio trunk, and about three inches higher than a line drawnbetween the eyes, will be instantly fatal. (Fig. 2.) Should the sportsman be to one side of the elephant, at right angles toit, a shot directly into the ear-hole, in a line to pass through the oppositeear, or anywhere within the blank space indicated in fig. 2, will be instantlyfatal. To obtain the indicated space, draw lines from the top and butt of • I. cc OQCO p-z< I Q. UJ u II- g H CO O Q_ LJ I\- o Z UJICO CO OO THE CHIEF SHOTS. 191 the ear to the eye; join the top and butt of ear by a vertical line as a bnseto the triangle. Of the triangle thus formed, about one-third of the areafrom the base is fatal. A shot nearer the apex will pass in front of thebrain, if delivered at right angles with the elephants course. The shot behind the ear is in the hollow just over the large bump orswelling at the junction of the jaw and neck. It must be taken at aboutan angle of 45° with the elephants course, from behind. When an elephantchanges his position from any of those indicated above, the lines to thebrain are of course altered. Thus an elephant charging with his head heldhigh will have to be aimed at, from in front, a foot or so lower than whenat rest as in fig. 2 ; and if t
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