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Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nUXTIXr. AND CATCHING WILD ELEPHANTS Let US examine the first. Certain wild tribes far up the Nile, borderinLTon Equatorial Africa, hunt elephants on horseback and also on foot. A traveller gives these two accounts of what he saw. The HamranArabs, a brave and warlike tribe, use horses in their hunt. Mounting thefleetest beasts they have, they start for the long grass where the elephantsare usually to be found. They first send out scouts to locate the herd, andsee that they do not scatter. The hunters always try to attack the animalssuddenly, and from several points at once. They dash bodly forward andtackle the nearest at hand. These men arm themselves with long, heavy,
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double-edged swords, which they wield wnth great dexterity. They gallopamong the elephants, shouting and yelling. The big beasts become panic-stricken and try to get away. The object of the natives is to slash theelephants in the lower part of the legs and try to hamstrin- them. Once thetendons are cut the elephant is helpless, and can be killed at leisure. Onlybrave men can follow this sport, for the wild elephant is very savage andcunning, and can run like a steam-engine. The same traveller relates that while visiting other tribes he had an HUNTING AND CATCHING WILD ELEPHANTS opportunity to see a hunt conducted on foot, where the natives tried to sneakupon their game. It is ahiiost comical to see a huge elephant rush away inpanic from a couple of yelling, naked savages. It seems easier to hunt theelephants on horseback than on foot, but in the latter fashion the hunter isreally much safer, for he can turn and dodge and take advantage of covermore quickly than when on horseback. More

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