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we had hopes of getting him. We presently went down to where they had been and oh! horror! There was a small one stone dead shot just behind the [[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]] ear. No one had seen him or seen him fall & we do not know how he had been shot. Our bullets apparently both struck home. The gun bearers say the bullet went in at one ear of the Big Bull and out the other, but it hardly seems likely. What seems more probable is that as L fired about 1/2 a second before I did, the bull may have turned his head at the shock & mine glanced off his skull. Anyhow there was the young bull stone dead & his tusks well under the 60 lbs allowed by law.

About 100 Kisii turned up from nowhere & fell to like wild animals - in 2 or 3 hours only a few bones remained.

We tracked our herd some way but in the dense grass jungle could find no traces of the wounded Bull - so back to camp with despair in our hearts.
Our Safari is 2 days overdue & food is running short. One Askain & the syce are somewhere in the Blue searching for the marks which have been found and altogether we [[strikethrough]] re [[/strikethrough]] are sick to death of this awful grass jungle & elephant hunting. Our