The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-31
DODGlNG ELEPHANTS TRUNK.
Man imprisoned In Hole In the Ground Lost
Ills Clothes. But Saved Ills Life.

Captain Medcot of the Royal Irish Rifles Mr. Ballard
of Lumsden Horse accompanied by several
elephant the of Mapungwana
They succeeded il getting right the middle of and fired
which the elephants made off, with swapping and bushes
cracking followed by Umhop the tracker and
at last confronted a huge elephant.
trumpeed charge" rifles rang
only his big chest aim for he raised aloft his unke
screaming Mr. Ballard rapid flank
the right his objective the thorn he and the
plant together came
elephant gun flung the clearing,
and bougs and orns pinned the hunter the ground The ee
plant like doing outside Umope the
tracker With yell Captain Medlicott
bost he leap fig which his trained eye
had located the harbor refuge Then the elephant car
ed Captain Medico who three feet in front OF him hole
the ground.
He didn't wait investigate with the agility of rabbit
elephantne charge his he dved
first down the His which he had held ao crossed
the hole and remained outside almost docatng his arm with the
jerk. For he dazed that he didn't know where
but few seconds suced him He had landed
in one OF the old meae pits OF disued kraa those circular ex
five high and eight feet diameter which
natives their grain through the little hole sufficient for
adult pass through that with the surface.
Thinking of Mr. Ballard the Captain quietly the
listened No soundhe himself cautiously
pushed his head though the ohce The sight that his
oze his blood The elephant stood right him. both wicked
the watch and he duckd his head long
trunk followed him into the Pa terrible death to be dragged
from the hole like from the and crushed pulp
under the huge pedal etremties of the mammoth He began
lodging the it. past behind edge of
the pit into the crushed against the walls and missing
round and round until almost best
put end to all by one final desperate savage onslaught the
thing that pursued him.
his aloft
clothing khaki The Captain had lost his Cast
ing ground the huge animal danced with this
shell of the human FORM and having pounded
earth he resumed his search The after
longed underground search the abstraction of Shirt
ordslip shreds and the winds of
This followed by of trousers and these after be-
ing used flick the flies off his
ripped and followed the wake of
the shirt; the hunt resumed
Next time it will be Kateni himself thought Umhope
he heard and looking his right he
slight the fallen thorn branches the
muungn dead after ALL but He
get help should OF them survive he would
account He did hesitate slid quietly
that part sight of the lord
silently into Jungle all haste
When back with help Mr.. Ballard rescued from the
bush where seriously injured, and the
ward the Calls Come OUT brought response
Then two adventurous descended
with nothing European about but the boots passed
surface Caked ankle with clay
nrspiration would have identified the form agile
figure that previously like Mephstophele and his
door had descended to the depths below.
As hosted quickly
exhausted after three crmmage
; an eeDhants chamber by 5 and the
@ SIRE which bone body the completely
turned to his people and said: Surely
:; ,s have been witch Umkwekw who played the trick