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...imagine how we felt? As a matter of fact, we didn't have time to think. Mother had her movie camera going all the time, and was standing back of me. Well, the elephant came and came and came, followed by the herd. Klein yelled at him, hoping to turn him, but still he came. I had one shell left in my double-barreled gun, and shot at his head. Klein and Pete shot at the same time. I was off my balance. . . . My foot caught as I stepped back from the kick of the gun, and down...
...shots sent the herd thundering off in another direction. The relieved Davisons dethorned themselves and Hunter Klein "put two bullets into the bull's brain as he lay just 18 paces from where we had stood as we brought him down; and that was the end of that...
...small bull, one large one and two cows,* the Davison party had one cow to go when their trackers led them at dawn up to a herd of elephants feeding slowly along in thick bush. Wrote Father Davison...
...Immediately the herd stampeded and milled around in every direction, as they didn't seem to know where the danger was. But within two or three seconds a big bull picked us out and came for us like an express train...
...Shamba is a native word for garden. Shamba elephants are rogues which, splitting off from the herd to roam alone, will not only trample gardens and farms but have been known to attack human beings without provocation...