ight when at a distance of about a hundred yards. This
was a great disappointment, so the major, rather than be balked
altogether, tried a long shot and broke the animal's fore-leg. Then,
running after him at a pace which even the supple natives could not
equal, he got close up and sent a ball into his head, which stunned him;
but it took four additional shots to kill him.

This was an unusually fortunate case, for elephants are not easily
killed. The African elephant is in many respects different from that of
India, and is never killed, like the Ceylon elephant, by a single ball
in the brain. Dr Livingstone tells us that on one occasion, when he
was out with a large party of natives, a troop of elephants were
attacked by them, and that one of these, in running away, fell into a
hole, and, before he could extricate himself, an opportunity was allowed
for all the men to throw their spears. When the elephant rose he was
like a huge porcupine, for each of the seventy or eighty men had
discharged more than one spear at him. As they had no more, they sent
for the Doctor to shoot him. He, anxious to put the animal at once out
of pain, went up to within twenty yards, rested his gun on an ant-hill,
so as to take steady aim; but though he fired twelve two-ounce bullets,
all he had, into different parts, he could not kill it. As it was
getting dark, they were obliged to leave it standing there, intending to
return in the morning in the full expectation of finding it dead; but
though they searched all that day, and went over more than ten miles of
ground, they never saw it again!

The female elephant killed by our hunters at this time was a
comparatively small one. Its height was eight feet eight inches. Many
of those which were afterwards killed were of much greater height.
Indian elephants never reach to the enormous size of the African
elephant, which is distinguished from that of India by a mark that
cannot be mistaken, namely, the ear, which in the African species is
enormously large. That of the female just killed measured four feet
five inches in length and four feet in breadth. A native has been seen
to creep under an elephant's ear so as to be quite covered from the
rain. The African elephant has never been tamed at the Cape, nor has
one ever been exhibited in England.

But to return to our hunters. Before that day had closed, the major and
his friends had made good bags. The total result of the day's hun