[Gfpp-bug] Spoke Swartboy:-- "Bushma

[Putton D. <inf...@mi...>]

To killing an elephant
with a shot in the forehead. That is a notion of gentlemen who

have hunted the elephant in their closets, though other closet
gentlemen the anatomists--to
whom give all due credit--have shown the thing to be impossible, from
the peculiar structure of the elephant's skull and the position
of his brain. Von Bloom at the time was under this wrong impression,
and therefore committed
a grand mistake.

Instead of seeking a side shot, which he could have obtained with far
less trouble--he decided on creeping round in front of the elephant,
and firing right in the animal's face.
Leaving Hendrik and Swartboy to attack him from behind, he took a
circuit under
cover of the bushes; and at length
arrived in the path the elephant was most likely
to take. He had scarcely gained his position, when he saw the huge
animal

coming towards him
with silent and majestic tread; and although