HUNTER KILLED.
Mrs Gerald Longden reported to tho Government at Uganda that her husband had been uoiindisl by an elephant ■and had died in the Congo. Ivory hunters, of whom Mr. Longden was one. take enormous risks. Ono of them u rites as follows: - “It is an awful country, with the thickest elephant grass, full of -flies, mosquitoes and ticks. The average* lange for shooting the elonh’itits is five cards. We creep up and shoot pointblank. Two of them I shot I could touch with, my rifle, and they lull only six feet off ‘One monster hoard me and rushed at ini' and knocked me down, but I managed to s« inn my rifle quickly and fire into his jaw. His blood poured over mv shirt He then rushed off. b it lia<l he fallen he would have crushed me flat." ‘You told me it was perfectly safe to go np in.” complained a gentleman who had b.en badly shaken by a lift accident. “Quite true, sir." answered the imperturahl? attendant; "the dangerous part was criming down.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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