The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-23
STORIES TOLD BY HUNTERS.
Elephants, BumAIOes, and sim More Savage
Men.


men at the campfire, than an elephant
fight. don't mean a fight with an ele-
plant, though that may be pretty thrill
ing to you, if you wound the brute
without disabling him and he gets after
you in the open But 1 mean a fight
between elephants.''
II didn't know they ever fought, - in
Eerrupted the novice in the jungle.
You would know it If you ever saw
two 'tuslkers' fairly at it, was the re-
ply. ''They don't often do it, but when
they do it is a battle to death One day,
up in the hill country, 1 saw such com
bat. They were hard at it when I came
in sight. They were on the hillside.
One of them, a burly stout-built beast,
with short, powerful tuslzs, was evil
IDENTITY getting much the worst of the
scrimmage, and the white and red fur
rows in his sides plainly indicated
seams made by his antagonists tusl1s.
Blood was trickling down his head and
shoulders. On the rise OF the hill was
his enemy, a still larger animal, pos
sessing the advantage of longer tuslzs.
It was lost fight. In a few minutes
the victor, with a quick rush at the
other made a good thrust at the side.
There was severe struggle, but the
tusk went its full length into the now
beaten brute, and using all his
weight the victor pressed him
down the hill, where they disengaged
themselves and prepared for another
bout. The wounded tusl1er's roars of
pain were pitiful to hear. He turned
tail and sought safety in fight. But
the other kept close behind him and
gave him thrust after thrust, but not in
any vital part. Pretty soon they
wheeled around, raced, and came to-
gether with a mighty smash. This was
about the only stand made, and the
by the more powerful and fresher vic
tor. The thrusts now put behind the
shoulder and into the body quickly dis
abled the poor brute, and in fact in a
few minutes the combat was over.
The cOnqueror with one rush complete
1y rolled his enemy over, and by re-
peated thrusts into the PROSTATE form
finished the fight amid meanings and
trumpetings.
81 got some men and went out next
morning to look for the body and get
the tuslSs. We found big herd of ele-
plants in an excited state almost on the
spot where the finish had occurred. In
1T were several small tuslSers, besides
the big cOnquerOr of the evening before,
who seemed to insti1 a great deal of
fear into the youngsters He came out
into the open glade with a fine young
female, and as he approached there was
Il general stampede out of his way.
We came on the dead beast, which had
been butted and rolled after it was
killed into a clump of bambOos. 1t had
been a fine, burly animal, but was
marked from forehead to rear and top
TO foot by rips and cuts. He measured
nine feet six inches at the shoulder, and
the tusl1s proved slightly over one hun
dred pounds the pair The victor
which in the fight appeared to tower
over his foe, must have been quite ten
feet high, and had the longest tuslzs 1
have ever seen clear of their sockets.
tried to get him. but what with his
harem about him and the difficulty of
getting clear view in the long grass 1
failed to get a shot
Il don't know, though said an old
hunter, who had been in Africa, but
that 1 would rather take my chances
with an elephant than with a real mad
buffalo. There is no more savage brute
and none more indOmitable and persist
ent in his wrath. 1t is not that they
are swifter or stronger or that their
horns are a more deadly weapon. But
they display pertinacity of spite which
makes them exceedingly fornida bic.
Let a lion miss his first spring and he
will turn away-unless ravenOusly hun
gry-in disappointment and disgust
from his intended victim. Let a rhinoc-
eros be wounded, and, unless hemmed
in by foes, he will make for the water.
But the wounded buffalo sticks to his
enemy, and has been known to watch
under n tree for days in the hope of Sc
curing his revenge upon the hunter who
had climbed it to escape his fury. The
natives have a special plan of their own
for capturing them. They used to Sc
lect the special bull they wanted to kill
and entice or drive il from its compan-
ions Two or three of them. would en-
gage the animals attention in front,
leaping nimbIy to one side to avoid his
furious charges, while another hunter
took the risky job of creeping up be-
hind ana hamstringing the beast They
We're generally successful, but many
lives We're lost every year in buffalo
hunting, and the natives themselves
consider it the most dangerous quadEu-
ped in the forest Chicago Tribune,
The late Rev. William Jay, of Bath.
and Andrew Fuller We're driving to-
gether, when bird flew across the
road and so frightened the horse that
he ran away. Having get home without