ELEPHANT HUNTING NOT AN OCCASION FOR LIGHTSOME MERRYMAKING.

FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES OF FOREST IN WHICH THE KENIA ELEPHANT LIVES, WANDERS AND BRINGS UP HIS CHILDREN The peril and excitement of elephant hunting can not be realized by any one who has known only the big, placid elephants of the circus, or fed peanuts to a gentle-eyed pachyderm in the park.

To the person thus circumscribed in his outlook, the idea of killing an elephant and calling it sport is little short of criminal.

It would seem like going out in the barnyard and slaying a friendly old family horse.
That was my point of view before I went to Africa, but later experiences caused the point of view to shift considerably.

If any one thinks that elephant hunting is an occasion for lightsome merrymaking he had better not meet the African elephant in the rough.