The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

WONDERFUL SPORT IN ABYSSINIA.

Sportsmen are noted for the vigour with which
they draw the long bow. In all ages man has
allowed himself the greatest latitude when describ-
ing his exploits in the field, more especially as a
huntsman. When the sporting character gets into
unknown wilds, then indeed on his return he is
something awful, but many in these days of news-
paper correspondents do not wait for their return,
and cannot be circumscribed by a narrow audience,
so they soar into print, and make the world ring
with their deeds. At the same time it not un-
frequently happens that really truthful narratives
are delivered through the pure ignorance of the
public of the country and the scenes described. We
remember an English officer telling an adventure to
an unsophisticated English circle. He described
five tigers as being in the bush, a statement received
with winks and nudges, as the " bush" suggested to
the English mind was that of a gooseberry bush,
and they were not aware that the story-teller was
speaking of a dense Indian jungle. Dr. Boustead's
tale is worth repeating, and we give it as we found,
it in the Pall-Mall of Tuesday last :—"R. Boustead
day
yd
a soldier servant, accompanied by a
surgeon to the Abyssinian field force, has sent to the
Field an account of a day's sport in Abyssinia.vhich
eclipses all other African travellers' tales on record.
Shoho guide,
oguusitdeea,da dhoolywallah,
yuwt
aoini
aeh, and
"to try and bag a lion.". The soldier soon knocked
up in consequence of the tremendous nature of the
country to be clambered over, and was left behind ;
and Mr. Boustead, finding no lions, proceeded, in
company with the Shoho and the doolywallah, to hunt
for elephants. After incredible labour he came upon
a herd of five "huge brutes, two with large tusks, one
with medium, and two without any perceptible." He
stalked the largest till within ten yards, when the
elephant charged and, receiving a bullet in its fore-
head, dropped stone dead. To the next largest
elephant Mr. Boustead administered " a right and
left slick through the shoulder, both bullets well
plabed," and finished it up with a third bullet from
his "little Mortimer (Enfield bore)," which smashed
the animal's limb to atoms. As the Shoho and the
dhoolywallah were dancing a dance of delight
around the bodies of the fallen monsters, a third
elephant, an old bull, made at them, " galloping
like a racehorse and screaming furiously," the Shoho
shrieking, " Abiet, abiet, mundelli," which, being
interpreted, means, " Lord, master, save me," ran
straight up to Mr. Boustead, bringing the infu-
riated brute
h that nhmiman down with the butt of a
p
and in passing accidentally
knocked
e was
gentle
carrying, and nearly fractured
h
1 upon
Boustead, nothing daunted, arose,
shis
sareskull.rifle
and calmly planted an " Enfield-sized bullet," also
from his " double Mortimer," through the elephant's
brain, at a distance of five yards. The animal fell
dead at two paces from the spot on which the ad-
venturous hunter was standing, and rolled over a
tremendous precipice, carrying away large trees in
his fall as if they had been rotten reeds. No sooner
had this feat been achieved than a fourth elephant
entered on the scene, " blowing and trumpeting
hideously." It was received by the undaunted and
unerring practitioner at twenty-five paces " with a
heavy ball in the head, very high." This having
no effect on it, a second barrel was administered
"rather low," and its course was for a moment
checked. But on came the wounded brute again.
The Shoho and the dhoolywallah had by this time
bolted, ash-coloured with affright, and Mr. Bou-
stead stood alone. He motioned to the cowards to
toss him a loaded rifle from the high rocks
on which they had taken refuge. The rest
of the
or story shall be told iu his own words.
Sir Samuel Baker never shot closer or more accu-
rately, depicted his own feats more dramati-
cally :—" They chucked it down, and I caught it in
the air as it fell, and gave the elephant a No. 12
through the shoulder, which disabled him. He
tried to get up to the path where I was standing,
but tumbled back, and in his rage commenced
smashing to pieces everything in his way, making
fearful noises. It was a rare sight to witness his
wonderful strength ; he bore down trees of
consi-
derable thickness by sheer strength and weight of
body, and smashed their branches into thousands
of atoms. Every bit of jungle was knocked to
smithereens and trampled to pieces all around him ;
and his vain endeavours to get at us, and his terrible
rage at being foiled, were really most exciting to
witness. He nearly succeeded in getting up the in-
cline to where I was, when I gave him the last
bullet I had. His legs gave way, be staggered back
on his hocks, and then rolled over heavily with a
terrible groan. I can assure you I was thankful
when it was all over, and that I was out of the row
so well." The fifth elephant appears to have
escaped with its life.—Anglo-American Times.

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