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About 4 o'clock, however, Gobo woke me up, and told me that tho headman of ono of Wambels kraals had arrived to see me. I or? dered him to be brought up, and presently he came, a little, wizened, talkative old man,, with a waist cloth around his middle, and a greasy, frayed kaross made of the skins of rock rabbits over his shoulders. "I told him tc sit down, and then abused bim roundly. 'What did he mean FI asked, o>y disturbing me in this rude way? How did ho dar? to cause a person of my quality and evident importance to be awakened in order to interview his entirely contemptible self? "I spoke thus because I knew that it would produce an impression on him. Nobody ex? cept a really great man, he would argue, would dare to speak to him in that fashion. Most savages aro desperate bullies at heart, and look on insolence as a sign of power. *tThe old man instantly collapse i. Ho was utterly "overcome, he said; his heart was split in two, and well realized the extent of his misbehavior. But the occasion was very urgent He heard that a mighty hunter was in the neighborhood, a beautiful white man-how beautiful he could not have im? agined had he not seen (this to mel), and he came to beg bxs assistance. Tho truth was that three bull elephants such as no man ever saw had for years been the terror of their kraal, which was but a small place, a cattle kraal of tho great chief Wambe's, where they lived to keep the cattle. And now, of late, these elephants had done,them much damage, but last night they had destroyed a whole patch of meal ie land, and ha feared that if they came back they would all starve next season for want of food. Would the mighty white maa then be pleased to come and kill the elephants? lt would be easy for bim to do; oh, most easy! It was only necessary that be should hido himself in a tree, for three was a fall moon, and then when the elephants appeared he would speak to them with the :run, and they would fall dow.i dead, and there would bo an end of their troubling. "Of course I hemmed and hawed, and maile a great favor of consenting to this pro? posal, though really i was delighted to have such a chance. Ono of the conditions that I made was that a messenger should at once bo dispatched to V.'ambe, whoso kra?d wa two days' journey from where I was, telling him that I pr<>j>osed to come and pay my re sheets t<> him j-? ? few "i-ivs. a'-nd to ask ui> formal permission to shoot in his country. Also, I intimated that I was prepared to pre? sent him with 'bongo,' that is, blackmail, and that I hoped to do a little trade with him in ivory, of which I heard he had a great quantity. This message the old gen? tleman promised to dispatch at once, though there was something about bis manner which showed me that he was doubtful as to how it would be received. After that we struck our camp and moved on to the kraal, which we reached about an hour before sunset Tins kraal was a collection of buts surrounded by a slight thom fence; perhaps there were tea of them in alL It was situated in a kloof the mountain, with a rivulet flowing down ii. The kloof was densely, wooded, but for some distance above the kraal it was free from bush, and here, on the rich deep ground brought down by the rivulet were the culti? vated lands, in extent somewhere about twenty or twenty-five-acres. On tho kraal si de of these lands stood a single hut which served for m eulie stores, which at the mo? ment was used as a dwelling place by an old woman, the first wife of our friend the head? man. "It appears that this old lady, having had some difference cf opinion with her husband about the extent of authority allowed to a younger and more amiable wife, had refused to dwell ia the kraal any more, and by way of marking her displeasure had taken up her abode among the mealies. As the issue will show, she was, a< it happened, cutting off her nose to spite her face. "Close by this hut grew a large banyan tree. A glance at the mealio ground showed me that the old headman had not exagger? ated the mischief done by the elephants to his crops, which were BOW getting ripe. Nearly half of the entire patch was destroyed. The great brutes had eaten all they could and the rest they bad trampled down. I went up to their spoor and started back in amazement. Never had I seen such spoor before. It was simply enormous, moro es? pecially that of one old bull, that bad, so '?aid the natives, but a single tusk. One might have used any of the footprints for a hip bato. "Having taken stock of the position, my next step wes to make arrangements for the fray. The three bulls, ac'X>rding to tho natives, had been spoored into the dense patch of bush above the id oof. Now, it seemed to me very probable that they would return to-night to feed on the remainder of thc ripening mealies. If so, there was a bright moon, and it struck mc that by the exercise of a little ingenuity 1 might bag one or more of them without exposing myself to an}' risk, which, having the highest respect for the aggressive powers of bull elephants, was a great consideration to me. This, then, was my plan: To the right of the buts as }-ou look up the kloof, and commanding the mealie lands, stands the l>anyan tree that I have mentioned. Into that banyan tree I made up my mind to go. Then if the ele? phants appeared I should get a shot at them. I announced my intentions to the headman of the kraal, who was delighted. 'Now,' be said, 'bis people might sleep in peace, for while the mighty white bunter sat aloft like a spirit watching over the welfare of his kraal what was there to fearf "I told him that be was an ungrateful j brute to think of sleeping in peace while I, perched like a wounded vulture on a tree, watched for bis welfare in wakeful sorrow, and once more he collapsed, and owned that my words were 'sharp but just.' "However, as I have said, confidence wa3 completely restored, and that evening every? body in the kraal, including the superan? nuated victim of jealousy in tho little hut where the moalie cobs were stored, went to bed wita a sense of sweet security from ele? phants and all other animals that prowl by night. "For my part, I pitched my camp below the kraal; and then having procured a bram of wood from the headman-rather a rotten one, by the way-? set it across two boughs that ran out laterally from the banyan tree at a height of about twenty-five feet from the ground, in such fashion that I and an? other man could sit upon it with our legs hanging down, and rest ourselves with our backs against thc bole of the tree. This done, I went back to the camp and had my supjxr. About t> o'clock, half an hour before tho moonrise, I summoned Gobo-who, thinking that bo had '?ad about enough of the delights of big game hunting lor that day, did not altogether relist the job-and despite his re? monstrances, gave bim my eight boro to carry, 1 having the .570 express, and set out for t he tree. It was very dark, but wo found it without dirT cully, though climbing it was a more complicated matter. However, ut last we got up. and sat down liko two little boys on a form that is too high for them, and waited. I did not dare to smoke, be? cause I remembered the rhinoceros, and feared that the elephants might wind tho to? bacco if they should come my way, and this made the business more wearisome. So I fell to thinking, and wondering at tho vast? ness of tho silence. "At last the moon came up, and with it a moaning wind, at the breath of which the silence began to whisper mysteriously. Lonely enough, in the new born Light, looked tho wide expanse of mountain, plain and iorest. more like some twilight vision of a dream, some faint reflection from a fair world of peuce beyond oy: kep, tuan the mere face of garish earth made silvery soft v sleep. Indeed, had it' not been for the 1 that I-was beginning to find the log on wi I sat very hard, I should have grown qi sentimental over tho beautiful sight. Bu will defy anybody to become sentimej when seated in the damp on a very roi beam of wood half way up a tree. So I m ly made a mental note that it was a part: laxly lovely night, and turned my attent to tho prospect of elephants. But no phants came, and after waiting for anot hour or so, I think that what betv en wc ness and disgust I must have (bopped int gentle doze. Presently I awoke with a st: Gobo, who was perched close to nie, bui far off as the beam would allow-for neit white man nor black like tho aroma wb each vows is tho peculiar and disagreea property of the other-was faintly, v faintly, clicking his forefinger against thumb. I knew by this signal, a very fav ite one among native hunters and g bearers, that he must have .s> or heard something. I looked bis face, and saw that he was st lng excitedly toward the dim edge of bush beyond the deep green line of meal I stared too, and listened. Presently I.bei a soft large sound, as though a giant w gently stretching out his hands and pressi back the ears of standing corn. Then ca a pause, and then out into the open maje cally stalked the largest elephant I ever s or ever shall see. Heavens! ^bat a mons he was! and how the moonlight glean upon bis one splendid tusk-for the other v missing-as he stood among the meali gently moving bis enormous ears to and f and testing the wind with his trunk! Wb I was still marveling at bis girth.and specul ing upon the weight of that huge tusk, whi I swore should be my tusk before very lox out stepped a second bull and stood besi -him. He was not quite so tall, but he seem td mo to be almost thicker set than the fir and. even, in that light I could see that bc his tufrks were perfect Another pause, a the third emerged. He was shorter tb either of the others, but higher in the shoi der than iso. 2, and when 1 tell you that, I afterwards learned from actual measuj ment, the smallest of these three mighty bu measured twelve feet one and ? half inch at the shoulder, it will give you some idea their size. The three formed into line, ai stood still for a minute, the one tusked bx gently caressing the elephant on the left wi his trunk. "Then they began to feed, walking fe svafd and slightly to the right as th? gathered great bunches of the sweet meali and thrust them into their mouths. All tb time they were more than a hundred ai twenty yards away from me (this I knew b cause I had paced the distances from the tr to various points), much, too far to allow i my attempting a shot at them in that unce tain light. They fed in a semicircle, gra< ually drawing round toward the hut, nej my tree, in which the corn was stored ax the old woman slept. "This went on for between an hour and a hour and a. half, till what between excit ment and hope that makcth the heart sick got so weary that I was actually contempla ing a descent from the tree and a moon?gl stalk. Such an act in ground so open woul have been that of a stark staring lunatic, on that I should even have been contemplatin it will show you the condition of my minc But everything comes to him who kno'.t how to wait, and sometimes too to him wb doesn't, and so at last those elephants, c rather one of them, came to me. After the had fed their fill, which was a very larg one, the noble three stood once more in lin some seventy yards to the left of the hat an in the edge of the cultivated lands, or in a] about eighty-five yards from where I wa perched. Then at last tho ono wit] the single tusk made a peculiar rat tiing noise in his trunk, just as though h were blowing his nose, and without morend< began to walk deliberately towards the bu where the old woman slept. I got my rill ready, and glanced up at tho moon, only t< discover that a new complication was loom ing in the immediate future. I have sade that a wind roso with the moon. Well, th< wind brought rain clouds along its track Several light ones had already for a li ttl? while lessened the light, though without ob scurmg it, and now two more were coming rapidly up, both of them very black anc dense. The first cloud was small and long, and the one behind big and broad. I remem? ber noticing that the pair of them bore a most comical resemblance to a dray drawn by a very long raw b^ued horse. As luck would have it, just as the elephant got within twenty-five yards or so of me, the head o? the horse cloud floated over the face of the moon, rendering it impossible for me to fire. In the faint twilight which remained, how? ever, I could just make out the gray mass o? thc great brute still advancing towards the hut. Then the light went altogether, and I had to trust to my ears. I heard bim fumbling with his trunk, apparently at the roof of the hut. Kext carno a sound as of straw being drawn out, and then for a little while there was com plete silence. The cloud began to pass. I could see the outline of tho elephant: he was standing with, bis head right over the tcp of tho hut. But I could not soe his trunk, and no wonder, for it was inside the hut ile bad thrust it right through the roof, and at? tracted, no doubt, by tho smell of tho mealies, was groping about with it inside. It was growing light now, and I got my rifle ready, when suddenly there was a most awful yell, and I saw the trunk reappear, and in its mighty fold tho old woman who had been sleeping ia the hut. Out she came through the hole like a periwinkle on thc point cf a pin, still wrapped up in her blanket, and her skinny legs and arms stretched to the four points of the compass, and, as she did so, gave that most alarming screech. I really dont know who was the most frightened, she or I or the elephant. At any rate, tho last was considerably startled; he had been fishing for mealies-thc old woman was a mere accident, and one that greatly discom? posed his nerves. He gave a sort of trumpet, and threw ber away from him right iu thc crown of a low mimosa tree, where she stuck, shrieking like a metropolitan en? gine. The old bull lifted bis tail, and flapping his great cars, prepared for flight. I put up rn}* eight bore, and, aiming hastily at the point of his shoulder (for he was broadside on), I fired. The report rang cut like thunder, making a thousand echoes in the quiet bills. I saw bim go down all of a heap, as though he were stone dead. Then, alus! whether it was tho kick of the heavy rino or the excited bump of that idiot Gobo, or both toget her, or merely an unhappy coin? cidence, I do not know, but the rotten beam brok-"?, and I wont down too, landing flat at the foot of the tree upon a certain bumble portion of the human frame. The y.hook was so severe that I felt as though all my teeth were flying through tho roof of my mouth; but although I sat slightly stunned for a few seconds, luckjjjy for me I fell light, and was not in any way injured. MeanwhW the ele? phant began to scream with fear and fury, and, attracted by his eries, the other two came charging up. I frit for my rifle; it was not there. Then I remembered that I had rested it on a fork of the bough in order to fire, and doubtless there it remained. My position now was very unpleasant. I did not dare to try and climb thc tree again, which, shaken as I was, would have been a task of some difficulty, been use the elephants would certainly see me, and GO1H>, who had clung to a bough, wes still aloft with the other rifle. I could uo* nm, because there was uo shelter near. Under these circumstances I did th<"> only thing feasible-clambered round thc trunk as softly as possible, and, keeping one j eye on tho elf-phants, whispered to (ioho to briric? down the rifl'\ and awaited the de- ; velopment of the situation. I knew that if j the elephants <1H not seo me, which, luckily, ! they were too engaged to do, they would not : smell me, for I was np wind. Gobo, how- ! ever, either did not, or, preferring the safety I of, the tree, would not hear me. lie said tho 1 former, but I believed the latter, for I knew ; that ho was not enoHgh of a sportsman to \ milly enjoy shooting elephants byhnoon- . light in the open. So there I was behind my tree, dismayed, unarmed, but big!)ly inter- j ested, for 1 wus witnessing a remarkable per- : formauoe. "When the two other bulls airived the wounded elephant on the ground ceased to 1 scream, but- Lesrau to. _mak? a low moaning noise and gently touch the wound near his shoulder; from which the blood was Uterally spouting out The other two seemed to un derstand; at any rate, they did this: Kneel? ing down on either side, they got their trunks and tusks underneath him, and, aided by his own efforts, with ono great lift got him on his feet. Then, leaning against him on either side to support him, they marched off at a walk in the direction of the village.* lt was a pitiful sight, and even then it made mo feel a brute. "Presently from a walk, as tho wounded elephant gathered himself together a littlo, they broko into a trot and siter that I could follow them no longer with my eyes, for the second black cloud came up over the moon ?Tho editor would have been inclined to think that in relating this incident Mr. Quatermain was making himself interesting at the expense of tbe exact truth, did it not happen that a similar incident has come within bis own knowledge. -EDITOR. and put her out as an extinguisher puts out a dip. 1 say with my ej'es, but my ears still gave me a very fair ration of what was go? ing on. When the cloud came up the three terrified animals were heading directly for the kraal, probably because tho way was open and the path easy. I fancy that they got confused in the darkness, for when they came to the kraal fence they did not turn aside, but crashed through it Then there were 'times,' as the Irish servant girl says in the American book. Having taken the fence, they thought that they might as well take the huts also, so they .just ran right over them. One hive shaped hut was turned straight over on to its top, and when I arrived on the scene the people who bad been sleeping there were bumbling about inside like bees disturbed at night, while two more were crushed fiat, and a third had all its side torn out. Oddly enough, however, nobody was hurt, though several people had a narrow escape of being trodden to death. "On arrival I found th6 old headman in a state painfully like tbat favored by Greek art, dancing about in front of his ruined abodes as vigorously as though he had just been stung by a scorpion. "I asked him what ailed him, and he burst out into a flood of abuse. He called mea wiz? ard, a shara, a fraud, a bringer of bad luck. I bad promised to kill the elephants, and I had so arranged things that the elephants had nearly killed him, etc. "This, still smarting, or rather aching,. as I was from that most terrific bump, was too much for my feelings, so I just made a rush at my friend, and, getting bim by tho ear, I banged his bead against the doorway of his own hut, which was all there was left of it. " 'You wicked old scoundrel,' I said, 'you dare to complain about your own trifling in? conveniences, when you gave mc a. rotten beam to sit on, and therepy delivered mo to the fury of the elephant' (bump! bump! bump!), 'when your own wife' (bump!) 'has just been dragged out of ber hut' (bump!) 'like a snail from its shell and thrown by tho Earthskaker into a tree' (bump! bump!). " '?erey, ray father, mercy!' gasped tho old fellow. 'Truly I have done amiss-my heart tells me so.' " 'I should hope it did, you old villain' (bump). *' 'Mercy, great white man. I thought tho log was sound. But what says the unequaled chief-is the old woman, my wife, indeed dead? Ab, if she is dead all may yet prove to have been for tho very best;' and bo clasped his hands and looked up piously to heaven, in which the moon was once more shining brightly. "I let go bis ear and burst out laughing, the whole scene and his devout aspirations for the decease of the partner of his joys, or rather woes, were so intensely ridiculous. " 'No, you old iniquity,' I answered; 'I left her in the top of a thorn tree, screaming like a thousand blaejays. The elephant put her there.' " 'Alas! alasf he said, 'surely the back of the ox is shaped to the burden. Doubtless, my father, ste will come down when she is tired;' and without troubling himself fur? ther about the matter he began to-blow at 'ho smoldering embers of tho fire. "And, as a matter cf fact, she did appear i few minutes later, considerably scratched and startled, but uono the worse. "After that I made my way to my little camp, which, fortunately, the elephants had co* walked over, and, wrapping myself up in a blanket, was soon fact asleep. "And so ended my first round with those three elephants. CHAPTER IV. THE LAST ROUND. "On thc moiTow I woke up full of painful recollections, and not without a certain feel? ing of gratitude to the Powers above that I was there to wake up Yesterday had been a tempestuous day; indeed, what between buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant, it had been very tempestuous. Having realized this fact, I next bethought me of those magnificent tusks, and instantly, early as it was, broke tho tenth commandment. I coveted my neighbor's tusks, if an elephant could be said to be my neighbor de jure, as certainly, so recently as the previous night, he bad been de facto-a much closer neighbor than I cared for, indeed. Now, when you covot your neighbor's goods, the best thing, if not the most moral thing, to do is to enter bis house as a strong mau armed and take them I was not a strong man, but, having recovered my eight bore, I was armed, and so was the other strong man, the elephant with the tusks. Consequently I prepared for a struggle to tho death. In other words, I summoned my faithful retainers, and told them that I was now going to follow those elephants over the edge of the world, if necessary. They showed a certain bashfulness about tho business, but they did not gainsay me, because they dared pot Ever since I had prepared with all due solemnity to execute the rebellious Gobo they had conceived a great respect for me. "So I went up to bid adieu to the old bead man, whom I found alternately contemplat? ing the ruins of his kraal and, with the able assistance of bis last wife, thrashing the jealous lady who had slept in the mealie hut, because she was, us he declared, tho author of all his sorrows. "Leaving them to work a way through their domestic differences, I levied a supply of vegetable food from the kraal in consid emtfon of services rendered, and left them with my blessing. I do not know how they settled matters, because I have not seen them since. "Then I started on the spoor of thc three bulls. For a couple of miles or so below tho kraal, os far, indeed, as the belt of swamp that bordered the river, the ground was at this s?>ot rather stony and clothed with scat? tered bushes. Raiu had fallen towards tho daybreak, and this fact, together with the nature of the soil, made spooring a very dif? ficult business. The wounded bull had, iu deed, bled freely, but thc.rain bad washed tho blood off tho leaves and grass, and the ground, being so rough and bard, had not taken the footmarks so clearly as was con? venient. However, wc got ulong, though slowly, partly by the spoor and partly by carefully lifting leaves and blades of grass, and finding blood enough underneath them, for tho blood gushing from a wounded animal often falls u?ion their inner surfaces, and then, of course, unless the rain is very heavy, it is not washed away. It took us something over an hour and a half to reach the edge of the marsh, but once tuen.' our task became much easier, for the soft soil showed plentiful evidences of tho great brute's passage. Threading our way through the swampy land, wo came at lust to a ford of thc river, and hero wo could pee where the poor wounded animal had lain down in their.ud and water in the hope of easing himself of his pain, and could see ;.'vj bow his t wu faithful companions had assisted him to risc again. Ive crossed the ford and I took uj> the spoor on the farther side, und followed it into the marsh like land beyond. No rain had fallen on this side of the river, and the blood marks were consequently much more frequent "All that day we fellowed tho three bulb, ? now across open plains, and now through i patches of bush. They seemed to have trav- , clod on almost without stopping, ar.d I :io ticed that as they weat tho wounded bull got i up bis strength a little. This I cou i i seo ? from bis spoor, which bad become firmer, ? and also from the fact that tho otter tw<j hud j given up supporting bim. At inst evening closed in, and, having traveled some eighteen miles, we campad, thoroughly tired ouL "Before dawn on the following clay wo were up, and the first break of light found us once more on the spoor. About half past 5 o'clock we reached the place where the elephants had fed and slept. The two unwounded bulls had taken their fill, cs the condition of tho neighboring bushes showed, but the wounded one had eaten nothing. Ho had spent tho night leaning against a good sized tree, which his weight bad pushed out of tho perjxindicu lar. They had not long left this place, and could not be very far ahead, especially as tho wounded bail was now again so stiff after his night's rest that for the first few miles the other two had been obliged to support him But elephants go very quick, even when they seem to be traveling slowly, for shrub and creepers that almost stop a man's progress are no hindrance to them The three had now turned to the left, and were traveling back again in a semicircular lino toward the mountains, probably with the idea of working round tc their oki feeding grounds on the farther side of the river. "There was nothing for it but to follow their lead, and accordingly we followed with industry. Through all that long hot clay djd we tramp, passing quantities of every sort of game, and even coming across tho spoor of other elephants. But, in spite of my men's entreaties, I would not turn aside after these. I would have those mighty tu3ks or nona "By evening wo were quite close to our our game, probably within a quarter of a mile, but the bush was dense, and we could seo nothing of t?fem, so once moro we had to camp, thoroughly disgusted with our luck. That night, just after tho moon got up, while I was sitting smoking my pipe with my back against a tree, I heard au elephant trumpet, as though something bad startle! it, not 300 yards away. I was very tired, but my curiosity overcame my weariness, so, without saying a word to any of my men, all of whom were asleep, I took my eight boro and a few spare cartridges, and steered to ~ward thc sound. The game path which we had been following all day ran. straight on in the direction from which the elephant had trumpeted. It was narrow, but weil trodden, and the liyht struck down upon it in a straight white line. I crept along it cautiously for some 200 yards, .*-hen it suddenly opened into a most beauti? ful glade some hundreds of yards or more in width, wherein tall grass grew and fiat topped trees stood singly. With the caution born of long experience, I'watched for a few moments-before I entered the glade, and then saw why the elephant had trumpeted There in the middle of1 tho glade stood a great maned Lion. Ho stood quite still, making a soft, purring noise, and waving bis tail to and fro. Presently tho grass about forty yards on tho hither side of bim gavo a wide ripple, and a lioness sprang out of it like a flash, and bounded noiselessly up to the lion. Beaching him, the great cat halted suddenly, and* rubbed her bead against his shoulder. And rubbed )ier head agninst his shoulder. Then they both began to purr loudly, so loudly that I believe that ono might in tho stillness have heard them two handl ed yards or more away. "After a time, while I was still hesitating what to do, either they got a whiff of my wind, or they wearied cf standing still, and determined to start i:i search of gama At any Kite, as though moved by a common im? pulse, they suddenly bounded away, leap by leap, and vanished ia the depths of tho forest to thc left. 1 waited for a little v.-bile -longer to see if thero were any moro yellow skins about, and, seeing none, came to the conclu? sion that tho lions must havo frightened the elephants away, and that I bad had my stroll for nothing. But just as I was turning back I thought I heard a bough break upon the farther side of the glade, and, rash as the proceeding was, I followed the sound. I crossed tho glade as silently as my own shadow. On its farther side tho path went on. Albeit with many fears, I went on too. The jungle growth was so thick here that it almost met overhead, leaving so small a pas? sage for the light that I could scarcely see to grope my way along. Presently, however, it widened, and then opened into a second glade slightly smaller than the first, and there, ou the farther side of it, about eighty yards from me, stood tho three enormous elephants. "They stood thus: Immediately opposite and facing mo was the wounded one tusked bull. He was leaning his bulk against a dead thorn tree, the only one in tho place, and looked very sick, indeed. Near bim stood tho second buD, as though keeping a watch over him The third elephant was a good deal nearer to mo, and broadside on. While I was still storing at them this elephant sud? denly walked off and vanished down a path in the bush to tho right. "There were now two things to bo done: either I could go back to tho camp, and ad? vance upon the elephants at dawn, or I could attack them at once. The first was, of course, by far the wisest and safest coursa To go for one elephant by moonlight, and single handed, is a sufficiently rash proaieding; to tackle three was little short of lunacy, But, on tho other hand, I knew that they would be on the march again before daylight, and there might come another day of weary trudging l^efore I could catch them up, or they might escapo me altogether. " 'No,' I thought to myself, 'faiDt heart never won fair task. I'll risk it and havo a slap at thora. But how? I could not ad? vance across the open, for they would see me. Clearly the only thing to clo was to creep round in the shadow of thu bush, and iry to c-nie upon them So I started. Seven or tight minutes of careful stalking brought ma to the mouth of the path ?own which tho third elephant had walked. Tho ether two were now about fifty yards from mc, ond the na? ture of tho wall of bush was such that I cou.d not see how to get nearer to them without being discovered. I hesitated, and peeped down the path which the elephant bad followed. About five yards in it t^ok a turu round a bush, i thought that I would just have a look behind it, and advaucud, cx pcctiiig that I should be ubi J to catch a sight of the elephant's tuiL "As ii happened, however, I met his trunk coining round the corner. It is very discon? certing to see an elephant's trunk when you expect to seo his tail, cud for a moment I stood paralyzed almost under tho vast brute's head, for he was not live yards from ma Ho, too, halted, having either seen or winded me, probably thc latter, and then threw up hu trunk aud tnimpetcd, preparatory to a charge. I was ia for i'- no v, for I could not e*ca*>o either to the right cr lclfc on ac? count of the bush, and I did not dare turn my bark. So I did thc only thing that 1 could d\ raised th<-> rifle and (ired at the black mass of bia chest. It was too ?lark for me to pick a shot; I could only brown it, as it were. '.The shot nmg out like thunder en the quiet air, and the elephant answer* i it with a scream, and then dropped bis trunk, and stood for a second or two asstill ns ;:..'i::jh he lind ben cut. in stone. I confess thal I lost my iiead - ? on; ht to bav . fir. <\ my sec? ond barrel, but I. did not. J c.-;fl of doing so, 1 rapidly opened my rifle, pulled out ttit' old cartridge frota tho right barrel an?! re? placed it. But before I could ramp the brees h to, the brill was at inc. 1 saw his great trunk f!' . o liken brown benin, nnd I waited no l??nge.*. Turning, I fled for dear life, and nf? : mc thundered the elephant. Right into thc open glade 1 ran, and then, thank hea? ven, just as he was coming.np-with me. lise bullet took effect on him. lie had been shot right through the heart, or hi::;;;-, and down ho fell with a crash, stone dead. "But in escaping from Scylla I had run into tho jaws of Charybdis. I heard thc ele? phant fall, and glanced naiad Straight in front ot inc. ar:.: :.? .'. ? - . . . /. were the other two bulls. They were starii j about, and at that moment they caught sigl of mc. Then they came, the pair of them came like thimdcrbolts, and from difTcrej angles. I had only time to snap my rino t lift it, and fire, almost at haphazard, at tl head of tho nearest, the unwounded bulL "Now, cs you know, in the case of tl African elephant, whose skull is convex at not concave like that of the Indian, this always a most risky and very frequently j perfectly useless shot. The bullet loses itse in thc masses of bone, that is alL But the: is one little vital place, and should the bull happen to striko there it will follow tho cha: nel of the nostrils-at least I suppose it is tl nostrils-and reach the brain. And it wi what happened in this case; the ball strut the fatal spot ia the region of tho eye ar traveled to the brain. Down came the gre: bull all of a heap, and rolled on to his sic as dead as a stone. I swung round at th* instant to face tho third, the monster bu with ene tusk that I had wounded two da; befora He was already almost over m and in the dim moonlight seemed-to tow? above me Hke a house. I lifted the rifle an pulled at his neck. It would not go of Then, in a flash as it were, I rcmembere that it was on tho half cock. The lock of tl barrel was a little weak, and,a few days b fore, in firing at a cow eland, the left "bant had jarred o?? at the shock of the discharg of the right, knocking me backward wit the recoil; so after that I had kept it on tl half cock till I actually wanted to fire it. "I gave one desperate bound to tho righ and, my lame leg notwithstanding, 1 believ that few men could have made a botte jump. At any rate it was none too soon, fe as I jumped I felt the wind made by th tremendous downward stroke of the monster trunk Then I rac for it "I ran hke the wind, still keeping hold c my gun, however. My idea, so far as I cou! be said to have any fixed idea, was to bo] down the pathway up which I had como, lik a rabbit down a burrow, trusting that h would lose sight of me in the uncertain Lighi I sped across the glade. Fortunately, th bull, being wounded, could not go full speed but wounded or no, ho could go quite as fas as I could. I was unable to gain an inch and away we went with just about three fee between our separate extremities. We wer at the other sido now, and a glance served t show me that I had miscalculated and ovei shot the opening. To reach it now was hope less; X should havo blundered straight int the elephant So I did the only thing I coull do: I swerved like a coursed hare, and starte? off round the edge of the glade, seekinj for some opening into which I coull plunge. This gave me a moment's- start for the bull could not turn as quickly as could, and I made the most of ik But m opening could I seo; the bush was like a wall We wero speeding round the edge of th; glade, and tho eicphxut was coming up again Now he was within about six ?eet, and now as he trumpeted or rather screamed, I coule feel tho fierce hot blast of his breath striki upon my head. Heavens! how it frightenex me. We were three parts round the gladi now, and about fifty yards ahead was th: single largo dead thorn tree against whicl the bull had been leaning. 1 sported for it it was my last chance of safety. But spur as I would it seemed hours before I got there Putting out my right hand, I swung rounc tho tree, thus bringing myself face to fact with tho elephant I had not time to lift th rifle to fire; I had barely time to cock it anc run sideways and backwards when he wai on to rae. Crash I he came, striking the tr? full with his forehead. It snapped like a car rot about forty inches from the. ground Fortunately I was clear cf the trunk, bu ono of the dead tranches struck me or the chest and swept me to tho ground. " ] fell upon ray back and tho elephant binn dered past mo as I lay. More by ins thiel than anything else 1 lifted my riflo with on? hand and pulled the trigger. Tt exploded, and, as I afterwards discovered, tho build struck him in the ribs. But the recoil of thc heavy rifle held thus was very severe; ifrbenl my erm up and sent tho butt with a thud against the top cf my shoulder and tho side of my neck, for the moment quite rxindyzmg me, and causing the weapon to jump fr?re my grasp, liena while the bull was rushing on, He traveled for some twenty paces, and then suddenly he stopped. Faintly I ro fleeted that he was coming back to finish me, but even the prospect of imminent and dread? ful death could not rouse me into action. 3 was utterly spent: I could not move. "Idly, almost indifferently, I watched hi? movements. For a moment he stood still, then ho trumpeted till the welkin rang, and then very slofly, and with great dignity, he knelt down. At this point I swooned away. "When I carno to myself again I saw from tho moon that I must have been insensible for quite two hours. I was drenched with dow and shivering all over. At first I could not think where I was, when, on hf ting my head, I saw the outline of tho one tusked bull still kneeling some flve-and-twenty paces from mc Thea I remembered. Slowly 1 raised myself, and was instantly taken with a violent sickness, the result of overexertion, after which I nearly fainted a second time. Presently I grew better, and considered the position. Two of the elephants were, as I knew, dead; but how about No, S? There be knelt in majesty ia tho lonely moonlight Thc question was, was ho resting cr dead? I . got on my hands and knees, loaded my rifle and painfully crept a few paces nearer. I could see his oye cow, for the moonlight fell full upon it It was open and rather promi? nent. I crouched and watched; tho eyelids did not move, nor did the great brown body, or tko trunk, cr tho ear, or the tail-nothing moved. Then I knew that ke must be dead. "I orept up to him-still keeping tho rifle well forward-and gave him a thump, reflect? ing as I did co how very near I had been to being 'thampee instead cf thumper.' He neve? stirred; he certainly was dead, though to this day I do not know if it was my ran? dom shot that killed him, or if ho died from concussion cf tko brain consequent upon tho tremendous chock of Lis contact with the tree. Anyhow, there kj was. Cold and beautiful ho lay, or rather knelt, as tho poet neatly puts ic. Indeed. ? do net think thai I Lavo ever seen a eight mere imposing in its way than that mighty beast crcuehed in majestic death and shone upon by tho lonely moon. While I stood admiring tho whole scene, and heartily congratulating myself upon my escape, I once moro began to feel sick. Accordingly, without waiting to examine the other two bulb, 1 staggered off bael: to the camp, which in duo course 1 reached in safity. Everybody in it was asleep. I did not wake them, but hav? ing swallowed a mouthful of brandy, I threw off my coat and shoes, rolled myself up in a blanket, and was soon fast asleep. When I woke it was already light, and at last 1 thought that, like Joseph, I had dreamed a dream. At that moment, however, 1 turned my brad, and quickly knew that it was no dream, for my neck and face were so stat from the blow of tho batt cud of thc ride that it was agony to move them, 1 collapsed for a minuteur two. Cobo and another raun, wrapped up liko'a couple of monks ia their blankets, thinking that 1 was still ?slecp, wcrecrouchctlovera little Gre they bad made -for thc morning was ?lamp and chilly-and holding sue 'L converse. "Gobo said that he was getting tired of rutmin,; after elephants which they never caught, rhi.-u.naaaha faa- is myself) was without doubt a mau of park; and of fonio skill in shooting, but also h > w;>.; a foci. N *? but a fool would run so fast and far after elephants which it was impossible? to catch when they kept cutting rho spoorcf fi"csh ones, llo certaialy wai a foci; but bo must not bo al loweri to continuo in his folly, and he, Gobo, hud dotenmned tv) put a s-'ap ti> it? I Ho should refuse io accompany bim any far? ther on mad a inui? "Yes, thc other answered, tho ?ocr rann I certainly was sick ia lils head, :md it wa.? ? quite time that they checked his folly while ! they still had a patch of skin left upon their ; feet Moreover, ho, for his part, certainly did not like thU ccmitry of Wambo'.-, which really w:is tull < : ghos?A Only tho last night ho had beard tho spooks at work; they were oat shooting; at least it sounded ; though they were: It wai very queer, bu? perhaps th -ir lunatic of a master " 'Gob -, you scoundrel!' I shouted cu* ai ' this jnncturc, silting bolt upright on t'n i blanket?, 'stop idling there, and make mo j some cotice.' "Up sprang Gobo and his friend, and in half ? momeiit wera respectfully skippi: a'.xmt; in a maaner thac contrasted val? wi thc lordly contempt or their previous convc satioa, But ail tho same they were in ec nv.it ia vf hat they said about hunting tho c. pliants any farther. for before I had finish my coffee they cacao to me in a body, a said that if I wanted to fellow thoso e. phau ts I must follow them Ly myself, f thoy would not go. "I argued with them, and affected to much put ont. Theolephants were close hand, I said; I was sure of it; I had nea them trumpet in tho night. uYes, answered the men, mysterious] they too bad heard things in tho night things not nice to hear; they had heard t spooks ont shooting, and would no longer J main ina country so vilely haunted. u -It was nonsense,' I replied. 'If ghos went ont shooting, surely they would use c guns and net black powder, and one won not hear an air gun. WelL il they we cowards, and would not come, of COOTS could not force them to, tut I -would maka bargain with them. They should follow the elephants for ono hali hour mare, then if i failed to come upon them 1 would aband? the pursuit, and we weald go straight Wambo, chief of the Matuku, and givo bi bongo.' '.To this compromiso tne mea readi agreed. Accordingly about half an hoi later we struck our camp and started, ai notwithstanding my aches and bruises I < not think that I ever felt in better spirits my li fa It is something to wake up in tl morning and remember that in tho dead night one has, single handed, given battle and overthrown three of the largest el phants in Africa, slaying them wita thr bullets. Such a feat had never to my kno-n .edge been done before, and on that r^articcl morning I felt t ry 'tall maa of my hand indeed. The om, thing that I feared vr? that should I over c-ine to tell the story, n body would believe it, for when a strang story ?3 told by a bunter, people aro apt 1 think it is necessarily a lie, instead of heir, only probably so.* _. ?For tho satisfaction cf arty who may bo co di believing as to take this view cf Slr. Quasetrsaio story, tho editor may state that a gentlema with whom ho io acquainted, and whose veraoi? ho believes to bo beyond doubt, not long ago d scribed to him how he chanced to kill four An caa elephants with :our consecutive bullets. Tts of these elephants were charging lum simultan ously, cad out cf the four, three were killed wit tho head shot, a very uncommon thing inti case of the African elephant-Enrrca, "Well, wo passed on till, having crosse tho first glade where I had seen the lions, w reached the neck of bush that separated : from the second glade Tvhero tho dead eli phants were. And here I began to take elal orate precautions, among others orderin Gobo to keep some yards ahead and look ou sharp, as I thought that tba elephants mig! bo about. Ho o bey ed my instructions with superior smile, and pushed ahead. Present? I saw bim pull up as though bo bad bee shot, and begin to faintly snap bis fingers. ** -What is itv I whisrj?red. * ".The elephant, tho great elephant wit one tusk, kneeling down.' "I crept up besido him. There knelt tb bull as I had left him last nigh t, and then too, lay the other bulls. M 'Do these elephants sleep?' I whispered t the astonished Gobo. " -Yes, Macumazahn, they sleep.* " *Nay, Gobo, they aro dead.' ? ?Dead? HOT? caa they bo dead? Wk killed them? " -What do people call mo, Gobo? ? ?They call you Alaciunazakn, " ?And what does TJa^-rnazab-j mean? ".It means tao man who keeps his eye open, tho man who gets up in tho night. " 'Yes, and I am that man. Look, you idle lazy cowards. Whilo you slept last night rose, and alone I hunted theso great elephant and slew them by tho moonlight. To each o them I gave ono bullet and only one, and i .fell dead. Look,'and ? advanced into th; glade, 'here is my spoor, and here is tho spec: of tho groat bali charging af ter me, and then is tho tree that I took ref age behind. See *ho elephant shattered it in bis charge. Oh yoa coward^you who would give up th< chase whilo the blood spoor steamed beneat! your no-trilsl See what, I did single bandee while you slept, and be ashamed 1' " 4Ou,' said tho man, *cu, Koos, kees, 3 uracooir (chief, mighty chief!), and Jhei they held their tongues, and, going up t< three dead boasts, gazed upon them ii silence. "Bat after that those men looked upon m< with awe as being almost moro than mortal No mero man, they said, could have slaix those three elephants alone in the night time I never had any further trouble with them I behove that if I had told them to jornt over a precipioo arid that they would take ac harm, they would have believed me. "Well, I went up and examined the balls Such tusks as they bad I never saw, auc never shall see again. It took us all day tc cut them out, and when they reached Dela? goa bay, as they did ultimately, thc.* h not in my keeping, the single tusk of the big bul] scaled ICO pounds and the four other tusks averaged 90}? pounds-a most wonderful, in? deed an almost unprecedented lot of ivory.* Unfortunately, I was forced to saw the big tusk in two, ocher wise we could not have ! carried it." j "Oh, Quatermain, you barbarionP 1 broke in here, "the idea of spoiling such s ; tusk I Why, I would have kept it whole if 1 bad boen obliged to drag it myself." ! "Oh, yes, young man," he answered, "it ii all very well" for you to talk like that, but ii you had found yourself in the po ition which it was my privilege to occup" a few hours afterwards, it is my belief that you would have thrown tho tusks away altogether an?! taken to your heels." "Oh," ?aid Good, "so that isr.t the end cf the yarn? A very good yarn, Quatermain, by the way-I couldn't have made up a bet? ter one myself." The old gentleman looked at Good severely, j for it irritated him to be chaffed about his \ stories. "I don't know what you mean, Good. I i don't see that there is any comparison bo ; tween a tru^ story of adventure and the pre? posterous tales which you invent about ibex ; hanging by their horns. 2so, it is not the I end of the story; the most exciting part is I to come. But I have talked enough for to I night; and if you goon in that way, Good, i it will be some time before I begin again." .'Sorry I spoke. Fm suiv," said Good, hum? bly. "Let's have a split to show that there is "no ill feeling." Aud they d;d. ?The footrest elephant tusk of which tho editor has cay certain Lawwlou&o i>-a.:ei 2~:$ po un Js. ??ttTOU. [TO BE covrixrED.1 Tillman and Dawson. GnaiviUe y ?us. That v.ns net a pleasant meeting in Charleston Tuesday twight, the details of which the newspapers ui that city bring. Ot coarse there was fault ou both sides ; there always is ia such cases. Three years ago, we believe it was, 1> ll. Tiiloiau became prominent in thc State as an opponent of the prevailing policy of State govern mont and legisla? tion aud as a mouthpiece of tho farm? ers and the general mass of the people. The News aud Courier treated bim ?rst as a curiosity, then as an object of real interest, expressing real sentiments and widespread opinions, and fiually as an important factor tu polities. His strength grew developed and Cap? tain Dawson, the c litor and thc head and soul of the News and Conner, ap? pears to have i-, aud that the Citadel Academy, in which he feels deep inter? est, would bo hurt by lhe. assaults of Mr. Tillman. The two men mot, con? sulted and made a treaty by tho tenus : of which Mr. Tillman was to refrain from attacking the Citadel Academy ! and Captain Dawson was to refrain from opposing Mr. Tillman's pct plan of a separate agricultural college. ? Thc half alliance harmed and weak? ened both. They represented opposed inf?uecces and interests and when they attempted to join ibeir forces they failed and underwent defeat together. Since then they have drifted more widely apart; the conflict between them has become more and more bitter. After a.series of defiances and exchang? es of hard words they met face to face in Charleston on Tuesday. Mr. Till? man waa invited there to speak. The News and Courier did what it could to - prevent the invitation. When Mr. Tillman faced a crowd, variously esti? mated at from 2,500 to 4,000 people, he devoted most of his time and breath to a personal attack on Captain Dawson, and Captain Dawson appeared on tho stand and replied in his own defence. There was nothiog new in attack or re? ply. There were the same old charges, the same old letters to Woodruff, the same old editorials from the Newa and Courier for and agaiost Chamberlain. The defence was the same committee report, explanations and reminders of distinguished company in political error* the reading public has seen on former occasions. The discussion was like the time worn sectional debates ta Congress in which the same ground of charge, defence, retort and counter retort is gone over year after year. Now what good has been done ? The News and Courier has made er? rors, we think. It bas been macy times on what we have thought the wrong side of questions, it has been un? kind to its enemies end sometimes too kind to its friends. All that is proper subject for criticism and may be appro? priately cited in political or other dis? cussions to impeach its value as an ad? viser and to resist its claim of ruler ship. Bat it is not fair to drag J?. W. Dawson to the front of every such dis? cussion, to marshal against him all the accusations made daring twenty years of active and stormy political and pro? fessional life and to keep back the lon? Hst of good he has done, if he and his newspaper are to be treated as ono. ?? No other ??j UOQe as much for the development and improvement of this State and the city of Charleston as Captain Dawson. The value of the News and Courier in arousing public interest, maintaining the courage and confidence of the people, directing our attention to our resources and helping enterprises of every kind is beyond cal , culation or expression in figures. Pro { fessional Mid personally Captain Daw? son has done an enormous amount of work for the people among whom bis lot was cast, and be has never asked them for the value of a dollar more than he gave value received for. In times of disaster and dismay when other men, who have received from the State much \ in honors and profits after having been j forgiven sins and errors as bad as any with which he was charged, were back? ward or powerless, his courage and en? ergy were felt like an inspiration ( through all the public heart ; his great intellectual resources have, been freely called on and as freely given for the good of the State many times the publie ! knows of and many more, perhaps, that it does not know of. He has never failed us in any pinch or stress. Why not remember these things ? Why should a manly people endeavor to forget the manly virtue of gratitude ? The mute appeal of wounds got in the [ public service may down the clamors of accusation ; hair whitened in vigils and labors for the State may be shield and crown for the head it grows upon, ? Why should we reverse that and make our resentment a cloak to hide the scars, the roil of honorable achieve? ments, the evidences of good deeds wrought ? There should be none of the bitter? ness of partizanship in the contest we are having in this State between two parts of tho great Democratic brother? hood. We do not believe the people want or will have it. We are all Demo? crats, all working for tho goo'd of our State and party as we understand it. ? We think public sentiment will demand that all the matters of difference be discussed decently and calmly, and that each side allow the ether thc merit of honesty and the right to hold and tell its opinion. There is uo more sense or justice in the assault made by Mr. Till? man against Captain Dawson than there has been in the assaults made against Mr. Tillman in many of the newspapers that oppose him. We looked for a strong debate cn pending political issues whee those two met, with incidental incisive thrust and master stroke. When Mr. Tillman went down with a backet of tar. used many times before, and emptied it over his foe he deprived an important occa? sion of its dignity and wasted his op? portunity, as every man does when he lots his passion or the temptation cf a little cheap applause master his reason. -?II lill I - The Freedman's Bank troubles ap? pear never to end. The bit! that pass? ed both houses of Congress authorizing au appropriation of money suiilcient to reimburse the depositers, has boca in? terpreted to mean only colored depsitors, f.?r whose benefit tho batik was origi? nally intended. While this seems to be a gross act of injustice to while deposi? tors, i: nevertheless serves them right. They had no business to intrust their money to such an institution. It waa not intended for them and they deserve to be left. Mr. I\. Y>. Garland, an old gentleman of Salem, while attempting ene day hist week to shoot some birds that were de? stroying Iiis grapes, accidentally stepped into a hole, and falling, his throat struck" a piece of board stuck up in the ground. The cad of the board caught him under the chin, and had ir not becu for his beard the result would have been much worse. As it was bo had a lot of his beard pulled out, but the skiu of the throat was not abraded. Some blood vessels, however, were ruptured, and for a time it was feared the injuries would prove fatal. Dr. Woods was call? ed in, and under his s'siilful treatment, ; Mr. Garland is now considered out of j danger, but he speaks with considerable di&ouky.-Manning Times, *2Stk. - .*??#?* . * John McCur.0 is thc biggest oil pro? ducer in America. When ho was ' twenty years old he landed at Castle Gar I den from Irclaud with less than fivd i dollars in his pocket. Ho has ?100, i 000.UO0 now, ail made out of opporttt ! ni tics he saw in Pennsylvania's petro? leum fielus.