The panorama of nations - comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the (14763734292)

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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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both indiiferent ones, ran barking athim. The consequence was a terrific charge, the dogs at oncemaking for their master, and bringing the elephant right uponme. I had no time to gain my saddle, but ran for my life. Thedogs, fortunately, took after ■ Sunday, who, alarmed by thetrumpeting, dashed frantically away. Though in the midst of amost dangerous affray, I could not help laughing to remark horse,dogs, and elephant all charging along in a direct line. The dogs, having missed their master, held away for Klein-boy, who had long disappeared I knew not whither. Sundaystood still, and commenced to graze, while the elephant slowlypassing within a few yards of him, assumed a position under atree beside him. Kleinboy presently making his appearance, Icalled to him to ride in and bring me my steed, but he refusedand asked me if I wished him to go headlong to destructionSunday having fed slowly away from the elephant, I went upand ho allowed me to recapture him. I now plainly saw that the
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^l)^*v^\\\Vfeli.lfi>^lJilliJllWllvl>i>i •Mvii^^ HUXTEKS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Ill elephant was dying, but I continued firing to hasten his demise.Towards the end he took up a position in a dense thorny thicket,where for a long time he remained. Approaching within twelvepaces, I fired my two last shots, aiming at his left side, close be-hind the shoulder. On receiving these he backed slowly throughthe thicket, and, clearing it, walked gently forward about twentyyards, when he suddenly came down with tremendous violenceright on his broadside. To my intense mortiticatiou, the heavyfall was accompanied by a loud sharp crack, and on going upI found one of his matchless tusks broken short off by the lip.This was a glorious days sport: I had bagged in one afternoonprobably the two finest bull elephants in Bamangwato, and hadit not been for the destruction of their noble trophies, whichwere the two finest pair of tusks I had obtained that season, mytriumph on the occasion had been great