Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-05-18
DUEL BETWEEN ELEPHANTS.
One Monstrous Beast Cores Another t.
Death.

One Monstrous Beast Cores Another to
Death.
1t was my good fortune to spend
some months every season in fine
forest and hill country in India, where
my duties gave me chances of seeing a
great deal of elephant, buffalo and
other big game that frequented those
parts. Our camp was on partially
isolated hill, good deal above the
surrounding country We had been
some days IA camp. but had not been
visited by our friends, the elephants,
when one afternoon the saddened bel
low of one, evidently in pain, reused
everyone in the camp A hill man
presently came up to say that two
large tuskers were hard at it close by.
Everyone turned out on to the hillside,
from where it was easy even to the
naked eye, to see what was going on,
while with a glass even the movements
of startled deer could be made out
/ About seven or eight hundred yards
below the crowd watching the fight
were two tuskers. The one somewhat
nearer us, a burly, stout beast,
IDENTITY getting much the worst of the
combat, and the white and red burrows
in his sides and rear plainly indicated
seams run by his antagonists tusks.
, Blood could be seen trickling down his
head and shoulders. On the rise of the
hill was his rival, still larger animal,
possessing the advantage of longer,
cleaning tuslxs. 1t was lost fight,
and in few minutes the victor, with
quick rush at the other, made a good
thrust at the side. and though there
was severe struggle the tusk went it's
full length in the now beaten brute,
and using all his weight the victor
pressed him down the hill, where they
diseugaged themselves and prepared
for another bout.
The wounded tusker's roars of pain
and rage were pitiful to hear, and
though he would have escaped if he
could the other kept close behind him
and administered thrust after thrust,
but not in any vital part Presently,
wheeling around they came together
with mighty smash. This was about
the only stand made, and the weaker
powerful and the fresher victor. The
thrusts, now put behind the shoulder
and into the body, quickly disabled the
poor brute, and ia fact in few min
utes the great beast rolled over dead
Next morning, on our proceeding to
look for the tuskers, we found large
herd in an excited state almost on the
spot where the finish had occurred In
! it were several small tuskers, besides
the big conqueror of the evening be-
fore, who seemed to instill great deal
of fear into the youngsters. He came
now into the open glade with fine
young female, and as he approached
even the other COWS there was a general
stampede out of his way
We came on the dead beast, which
had been butted and rooted, after it
was killed, into clump of bamb oos.
1t had been a fine, burly animal, but
was marked from forehead to rear and
top to foot by rips and cuts He meas
ured nine feet six inches at the shout
der, and the tusks taken by the hill
men proved slightly over one hundred
pounds to the pair. The victor, which
in the fight seemed to tower over his
foe, must have been quite ten feet
high, and had the longest tusks I have
ever seen clear of their sockets. 1 tried
to get him, but what with his harem
about him and the difficulty of getting
| clear view in the long grass l failed
to get shot H. Thompson, in Week.
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