Year: 1879

treacherous. He went with tLe show to South Carolina. Late one night, while we were travelling, West was riding a little distance behind him, not expecting to meet anybody on the road at that hour. The first thing he knew was that Bolivar had caught up 8 horse on his tusks. From the horse dangled one of the little carts used in that part of the country. The driver had tumbled out, but the horse and cart were tossed into ditch beside the road, where the horse soon bled to death West hut Bolivar several cuts, and he seemed to yield, but said to him, George, that elephant will kill you yet I paid the man $40 for the loss of his horse, and we went on.

 1.-Two or three days afterward, on 8 Sunday morning, on the road from Camden to Lumberton, we came to wooden bridge over 8 mill race. The millpond lay directly to one side of the bridge. Bolivar approached the bridge, but stopped with suspicious air before he stepped on the blanks, as if doubling the strength of the structure. West, who was on horse just behind him, pushed him little with his whip, when suddenly Bolivar turned upon him, and catching the horse on his tusks, tossed horse and rider higher tban the caves of the mill. Both fell in the millpond. The horse was got out, but was so badly hurt that I ordered him to be knocked in the head. West swan ashore unharmed. In the mean time the elephant stood with his trunk hang. ing straig ht to the ground, as if what had occurred did not concern him in the least. l warned West to beware of him, but he said: T guess he doesn't mean me- We then took Bolivar below the mill, and allowed him to ford the little stream. West got One of the musicians to ride his horse while he started to go on foot. He gave the elephant one o1 two cuts with whip and the animal broke into run, but at crossroads near at hand he turned into the wrong road. Forgetting his usual caution, West ran ahead to turn him. No sooner did Bolivar see West in front of him than he made for the man. West ran for a high bank, and would have saved himself before the huge beast could have got under headway, but his foot slipped at the bottom of the bank.

 The next moment he was dangling ir mid-air on the two long tusks. There was fourteen-rail fence on the other i side of the road, but Bolivar moved through it as though it had been made of cobwebs. He did not seem to know where he was going, but kept tossing West up and catching him in the air al he fell. He ran in this way about { quarter of mile. Then West fell to the ground. What more Bolivar would have done to the lifeless body don know. There were two elephant dogs with him, and one, the black one, Tige think we called him, went and laic right over the body-just spread him self out on it. Bolivar looked at the dog half minute, and then, as if unwilling to hurt him, turned away and began tc feed along the field. When we ven tured to approach the body we found that it had been pierced thirteen times | by the tusks. West had all his clothes on when he was attacked, but everything and his shirt, which hung to him onl. by the neck-band. I sent back to Gam den for lot of rope, and we tried t' slip 8 moose on one of Bolivar's feet, bu every time we would get it on. ready t. be pulled tight, he would slip out of i or pull it off with his trunk. It was get ting late in the afternoon, and as dit not care to leave him, the dangerou brute, alive in that country, with nearly one thousand negroes swarming about worth over $500 apiece, determined t. kill him. So I rode back to Camden where I found about thirty young blood lounging around, dressed in their paten slippers and white socks. They all cam out on horseback, at my invitation, fo an elephant hunt. There was an ol' building that had formerly been used fo mill near the pond, and in this th young men took up position. Then

 man named Fletcher lowed him up t within fair gunshot, and at given sig nal the young men all fired at his eyes

 He was not even staggered. Raising hi trunk, he ran to the building and thre0 himself against it. It trembled, bu withstood the shock. If you ever wan to see sight, look at an elephant whe

 he's ugly. More than two hundred bu1 let's were fired into him. He at las turned and ran half blinded to piece C woods, the two dogs yet following him

 In the woods, he stood still, and, as

 had grown pretty dark, we left him.

 "In the morning we returned i

 greater force, and with some guns (

 larger calibre. We found him yet

 the woods, and almost in the sam

 tracks in which he stood the night be

 fore. He was shot at ashe stood. The

 he turned and ran into the millpon6 While he thus sought safety in tn

 water, slug penetrated to his brai1 through his eye, and killed him."

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