Litchfield enquirer., 1868-05-28

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 BAKERS EXPLORATION OF THF
 't "j NILE. .@ Exploration of the Nile Tributaries o Abyssinia. By Sir s. w. Baker. Pub 1 lished by o. D. Case & 'Co., Hartford, l 1868. t. ee. sle', z: =
 Those who take an interest in African
 explorations, in Abyssinia and the Abys.
 sinians, or in sporting for the largest game | the world affords, will do we'll to purchase
 the foregoing work. Since Gordon Cum
 mings, nobody seems to have made such
 havoc among the Pachyderms The follow. ing extracts will give some idea of the |. ;r.s AN ELEPHANT HUNT
 About a quarter of an hour passed in sus- pense, when when we suddenly heard a chorus of wild cries of excitement on. the
 other side of the jungle, raised by the ag- gageers who had headed the herd, and were driving them back towards us In a few minutes tremendous crashing in the jun
 gle. accompanied by the occasional shrill scream of savage elephant, and the con tlnued shouts of the mounted aggageers, assured us that they were bearing down exactly upon our direction; they were ap- parently followed even through tho dense Jungle by the wild and reckless Arabs. I called my men closer together and told them to stand fast, and hand me the guns quickly; and we eagerly waited the onset that rushed towards us like 8 storm. On they came tearing everything before them. For moment the jungle quivered and crashed; a second later, and, headed by an immense elephant, the herd thundered down upon us. The great leader came di- rect at me, and was received with right and left in the forehead from Reilly No. 10 as fast as I could pull the triggers. The shock made 1t reel backwards for an in- stant, and fortunately turned it and the nerd likewise, My second rifle aieK irIgnt fiiiH fiiiHlttgi ttgit aS the temples of of two iue ele- plants dropping them both stone dead. At this moment the Baby was pushed into my hand by Hadji Ali, just in time to take the shoulder of the last of the herd, that had already. charged headlong after his comrades, and was disappearing in the jungle. Bang! went the ''Baby;" roundI spun like weathercock, with the blood pouring from my nose, as the recoil had driven the, sharp top of the hammer deep into the bridge. My Baby not only screamed, but kicked viciously. However, I knew that the elephant must be bagged, as the half pound shell had bean aimed di- rectly behind the shoulder. I
 In few minutes the aggageers arrived; they were bleeding from countless scratch es, as, although naked with the exception of short drawers, they had forced their way on horseback through the thorny path cleft by the herd in rushing through the jungle. Abou Do had blood on, his sword. They had found the elephants commenc-' ing retreat to the interior of the country and they had arrived just in time to turn. them Following them at full speed,l Abou Do had succeeded in overtaking and slash ing the sine,wy of of an elephant just as it was entering the jungle. Thus the aggageers had secured one, in addition to Florian's s elephant that had been slashed by Jali. We now hunted for the. 'tBaby's'' elephant which was almost immediately discovered lying dead within hundred and fifty yards of the place where 1t had received the shot. The shell had entered close to the shoulder, and it was extraordi- nary that an animal should have been able to travel so great distance with q wound through the lungs by shell that had ex- ploded within the body. s: si2gIt ' '. We had done pretty we'll. I had been fortunate in bagging four from this herd, in addition to the single bull in the morn ing; total, five 2Florian had killed, one, and the aggageefs one; total seven ele-
 plants. One had escaped that had woun- ded in the shoulder, and two that had been wounded by Florian. j
 t. HIPPoPOTAMI. IF. .'t -.tfss-s--
 I had killed several wild geese for break fast in the absence of the hippopotami, when suddenly heard the peculiar loud snorting neigh of these animals in my ear.
 we had passed them unperceived, as they had been beneath the surface. After a quick walk of about half mile, during which time the cry of the hippos had been several times repeated, I observed six of
 tl,ese curious animals standing in the wat CT about shoulder deep. There was no cover, therefore I could only advance upon
 the sand without chance of stalking them This caused them to retreat to deeper water but upon my arrival within about eighty
 yards, they raised their heads we'll up, and
 snorted an impudent challenge. had my .fl ao