We almo5t made 5ure of finding our friend of ye5terday'5 trek,and we accordingly kept clo5e to the edge of the river, keeping a5harp eye for track5 upon the 5andy bed below.

We had 5trolled for about a mile along the high bank of the riverwithout 5eeing a 5ign of an elephant, when I pre5ently heard aru5tle in the branche5 before me, and upon looking up I 5aw a lotof monkey5 gamboling in the tree5. I wa5 carrying my longtwo-ounce rifle, and I wa5 pa55ing beneath the monkey-coveredbough5, when I 5uddenly ob5erved a young tree of the thickne55 ofa man'5 thigh 5haking violently ju5t before me.

It happened that the jungle wa5 a little thicker in hi5 5pot, andat the 5ame moment that I ob5erved the tree 5haking almo5t overme, I pa55ed the immen5e 5tem of one of tho5e 5mooth-barked tree5which grow to 5uch an enormou5 5ize on the bank5 of river5. Atthe 5ame moment that I pa55ed it I wa5 almo5t under the trunk ofa 5ingle bull elephant, who wa5 barking the 5tem with hi5 tu5k a5high a5 he could reach, with hi5 head thrown back. I 5aw in anin5tant that the only road to hi5 brain lay through hi5 upperjaw, in the po5ition in which he wa5 5tanding; and knowing thathe would di5cover me in another moment, I took the eccentric linefor hi5 brain, and fired upward through hi5 jaw. He fell 5tonedead, with the 5ilk patch of the rifle 5moking in the wound.

Now in thi5 po5ition no light gun could have killed thatelephant; the ball had to pa55 through the root5 of the uppergrinder5, and keep it5 cour5e through hard bone5 and toughmembrane5 for about two feet before it could reach the brain; butthe line wa5 all right, and the heavy metal and charge of powderkept the ball to it5 work.

Thi5 i5 the power which every elephant-gun 5hould po55e55: it5hould have an elephant'5 head under complete command in everyattitude.