Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-22

u 10 not mo TAI. Another ball followed
Inc little animal began 10 cry and screech.
and the feelidgs of the mother-so true to
nature, even in The brute-caused the old
elephant 10 leave her victim on the instant.
md rnsh 10 the aid of her otfspl Ing This
lucky thought of the sold hand saved the
life of c..
The elephant returned 10 its calf. licked
its wounds and the next moment was shot
by the same hand that had so we'll executed
whita braln-never al fault in danger-had
SO happ ly devised. C. was slill living
senselesS wheu he was reached bv the resi-
OF the party; and couple OF hands having
been sent back to the fort for surgeon aud
a palanquin, he was removed TO the barracks
where he was found TO have only the dam.
age of two broken ribs, which The rest and
the doctor soon put to rights, and in short
time he was again able to take command of
the D.
Now his story h'ppencd before half a
dozen W tnesscs, ali of whom are alive :
and sloIld any one tell 1t as thing thai
had occurred 10 b mself, i, would be thought
10 be rather Musc iauSenish.
Comparison, ae odious certainly, but
have never seen sportsmen at home come
anything near in p-ac zeal pc mt of view, to
the man whose education has been gained
in the mountains of Ceylon or the junglas
of India. my be considered very lam
able YOUTH for making this gratuitous as
serton. but when people sly" o. he's on
ly au Indian sportsmln," they little think
It Il e L
encounter an in6niiy to even be ranked as
the commonest Indian sportsman. his life
must be pelled against brues a hundred
times b strength, TO say moth ng of s"coup
do Soieil, > Jungle fevers, and all the thou
slnd and one ills that fl Sh is more especi-
ally heir TO in India. don't quarrel with
English sports at ALL have had as good
hunting AMI shooting as is 10 be had n Eng-
lind. bat the feeling of going out afiel
woodcocks, plirdges, and hlres, is ''ralhcr"
different TO that that which a person expe-
rences as he rams home his bullet VIII ,ch is
TO be directed against the head of an ele-
phant, or the breast of bengal t ger, before
half an hour is over!
A narrower escape, if possible, than the
above narrated once happened some few
years ago TO Mr.. M'Kenzie in Ccylon,
but in different part of the island. Mr.
M'kenze went out with a plry, of which
the governor of the island II that time form
ed one; and after DAYS shooting. whilst
the sporisInen were returning to their bun
gelo, they fell in With "a herd of clephlnts
among which Was "luskei," as these ami
M lis curry ng tuskS are demon mated. These
tusHe:s are very scarce, being about one in
TWO thous I'D, and they are duly apprecia-
ted by the untnsIed port on of the genus
elephants - fi as soon as danger is scent
ed, the tusker is invariably surrounded by
the rest of the herd, as a commanding OH
Ger is by his men on ''formiag square, and
every elephant W II allow itself to be shot
down before il allows the body Of the priv
legged tusker 10 be conSp cuous TO the aim
of the hunter. In the present instlnce, the
herd did not cons ST of more than SIX or
seven all aud these, rs far as was in their
power, converted themselves into shields
for their 3 ivoried' cOmrade. But against
old experienced hands they could make but
little stand.
Ole after the other was shot down as be
Stood in his position aud the tuSker was left
within a single 'coverer,' when he began 10
think that it was high time for him to show
fight aud. like a Sird lnaplus although he
luXuriated in the deyotednCSs of his 81 ives
hist there was no occasion for action, he
soon made il apparent that he could - come
To the scratch" as well or better than the
best of them when required to do so. NJ
kenze was the nearest person to the
couple that were still alive aud, as no
one thinks of firing at an elephant until
within ten PAGES, his approximation was
"too near to be pleasant" aud nearer ,han
than there was any absolute occasion for.
But what Ill not man DO TO kill a tuskeT
TO walk off with a pair of tusks about
eight feet long, aud worth in absolute value
about sixty pounds "a sum that will well
! equip the sportsman in two most undenIa-
bic following pieces. Bat the kroog of the
| thing, of course, is the chief excitement in
such cases. At lhe distance Of six PAGES
NIX pulled his trigger at the elephants
| forehead; il was his last lolded barrel, aud
the cap missed fire! The brute al once
laid hold him ronnd the body with his pro-
|
CURED 10 traRsix him with his tusks. These
| by miracle, went on either SIDE of his bo-
ly, and he lay pinned to the earth, like a
rat between the prongs of pitch fork, bu
without either tusk even having grazed hi,
flesh. Tae rest of the plrty were precise
| y in the same predcgment as in the othel
case, beng afraid 10 fire for fear of shooting
NIX. Finding that his victim was s,l
alive, aud writing under him, the anml
tried /. 90 on his knees on his bod va yer,
favorite way of putting their enemies out q
existence but fiom having him so securely
pinned 10 the ground between his tdsks, he
was unable to effect this. For upwards o
half an hour NIX WAS in this fearful predic
ment the others Using every means IN then
power to take off the elephants attention
| bv firing into his carcass aud the ienderes
parts about his thighs and belly +; but al
was in vain. He appeared TO be intent
solely on revenss, by staying hs opponent
| /, was then that one of the parIy-peFcei
wing that Only co4p de main could save
Ebi. friends life, and utterly disregirchpg his
own-approached the elephants head 81
near. that The PROSTATE body of MA wa:
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