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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the wind, and thedistance betwixt us Avas about five hundred yards. I advancedquietly towards them, and had proceeded about halfway, when,casting my eyes to my right, I beheld a whole herd of tearingbull elephants standing thick together on a wooded eminencewithin three hundred yards of me. These elephants were almostto leeward. Now the correct thing to do was to slay the best ineach troop, which I accomplished in the following manner,—Igave the large herd my wind, upon which they instantly tossedtheir trunks aloft, a moment snufied the tainted gale, andwheeling about, charged right down wind, crashing through thejungle in dire alarm. My object now was to endeavour to selectthe finest bull, and hunt him to a distance from the other troop,before I should commence to play upon his hide. Stirring myBteed, I galloped forward. Right in my path stood two rhinoce-roses of the white variety, and to these the dogs instantly gavechase. I followed in the wake of the retreating elephants, trac-
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HUNTERS IN SOUTH AFIUCA. 105 ing their course by the red dust ^Yhich they raised and left inclouds behind them, Presently emerging into an open glade, I came fall in sightof the mighty game ; it was a truly glorious sight; there werenine or ten of them, which were, with one exception, full-grown,first-rate bulls, and all of theiu carried very long, heavy, andperfect tusks. Their first panic being over, tlicy had reducedtheir pace to a free, majestic walk, and they followed one leaderin a long line, exhibiting an appearance so grand and striking,that any description, however brilliant, must fail to convey tothe mind of the reader an adequate idea of the reality. Increa.s-ing my pace, I shot alongside, at the same time riding well outfrom the elephants, the better to obtain an inspection of theirtusk.s. It was a difficult niatter to decide which of them I should(select, for every elephant seemed better than his neighbour; but,0(1 account of the extraordinary size aird beauty of his tusk

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