HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-10-16, Page 7Elephant Knelt On
Stunned Hunter
The COW elephant was feeding
contentedly as, a hundred yards
away, the hunter reined in his
horse end teak careful aim,
Battgl--the shat shattered the
peace of the African veldt as it
skimmed the elephant's head,
Flapping her ears and trill-111)00-
:11g with rage she turned to face
her attacker.
A second shot nicked her be,.
tween the peck and shoulders,
but still she came en, trunk rais-
ed. Then, as the hunter berried-
Iy emptied the breech of his rifle
to reload, she charged.
Frantically he spurred his
horse, but so tired was the ani-
mal after the hard day's ride
that it could hardly raise a
gallop,
°I heard two short, sharp
screams above my head," said the
hunter, Frederick Courtenay
Selous afterwards, "and just had
time to think it was all over
with me when, horse and all,
I was dashed to the ground. Far
a few seconds. I was half stunned
by the violence of the shock, and
the first thing I became aware
of was a very strong smell of
elephant."
For some moments he could
not understand what had hap-
pened. His body and head were
pressed against the ground, but
with a violent effort he man-
aged to free himself. Then he
reallized what was happening.
The elephant had gone down
on her knees to gore him with
her tusks. By some miracle she
had missed, but her massive
chest was pinning him, to the
ground, driving the, breath out of
his body,
Desperately, he wiggled free,
crawled out from beneath the
elephant and beat a hasty re-
treat, keeping an eye on the ani-
mal all the while. Each time
she swung her head to look for
him, he darted to the other side
to keep out of sight. Luckily
she did not turn right round and
he was able to escape bruised
and breathless but otherwise un-
scathed.
One of the greatest hunter-
naturalists, Selous spent a large
part of his life in Africa, and
had many narrow escapes from
death at the hands of enraged
and wounded animals. When he
did die it was with a rifle in his
hands, but this time the quarry
was human. When the first world
war broke out Selous, despite his
02 years, volunteered for active
service, and was eventually kill-
ed in action by the Germans in
East Africa in 1917.
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get away. It's caught in 'his
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Penetrating. The
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We often walked down the
beach, a narrow strip still mostly
snow-covered, with immense
cliffs of sandstone towering
above it. The soft stone of the
cliffs was eroded 'and carved by
wind and snow into monolithic
shapes, enormous figures of
hooded, armless , men, like half-
realized sculpture. Once we
came across a perfect small col-
umn, smooth as marble and
broken off at one end as if it
had beep part of a building. We
had been told there were pre-
historic relics in the Eastern
Arctic. This piece of pillar look-
ed man-made. . . .
We wandered home along the
beach. A light mist rose off the
melting snow and the sun shone
behind us through thin clouds.
We were each ringed by a small'
bright rainbow. As we walked,
clothed in rainbows, we picked
up shells—mussels, small clams
and delicately tinted coquineas,
a tiny shellfish usually found on
the shores of the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea. We came
across several more of those pre-
historic pillars. Some of them
were part of the sandstone cliff,
and we realized that the hands
,that had carved them into such
smooth perfection were wind,
snow and erosion.
This strange . land of carved
sandstone and personal rainbows
seemed quite unreal. We walked
in a dream, . .
What, Bill wondered, made the
tundra so astonishingly geomet-
ric. Even the smallest bits of
frozen earth or rock were angu-
lar and regular in form,” as if
shaped by a chisel. If one picked
up a pebble one found it was a'
microcosm of the tundra, a tiny,
perfect example of ' the geome-
tric effects of rhythmical freez-
ing and thawing.
He studied the peat-ridge
polygons, crooked and checker-
board patterns over 'the flat bogs,
where the earth had been bro -
ken apart by some unknown
function of frost action. These
flat, raised earth shapes were
lined ,by dykes, and ditches
about a foot deep ran absolutely
straight along their sides, cut
sharp and neat' as if by peat
diggers' knives. The ditches, it
was discovered, ran both paral-
lel and at right angles to the
direction of the flow of water on
the earth. Standing on top of the
sandstone cliffs, Bill noted the
pattern of the cracking sea ice—
and with an excited sense of
wonder and discovery he saw
that it was the 'same as that of
the peat ridges. The cracks ran
parallel and at right angles to
the shore line, creating ,straight-
edged polygons. It reminded him
of the breaking of a pane of
glass, Which will Similarly crack
in straight lines under pressure.
Glass, ice, frozen earth—in some
way they ,were bound by the
same physical laws.
This land had once been under
glacier. Under its centuries-long
frozen bondage, the earth had
become hard and brittle as glass.
,Three or four thousand year"
ago the glacier had retreated.
The earth rose after the heavy
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pressures were Set up which
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consistency Of glass at ice, the
Soil broke in the Sadie patterns.
the formations of these earth
Patterns had taken thousands of
yeart—yet it was essentially the.
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Among African big game
hunters the huge Cape buffalo
has always been held in greatest
respect. A wounded buffalo is
considered a more dangerous ad-
versary than a wounded lion
or elephant because it is more
crafty. Having been hit it will
often disappear ahead, then turn
off to right or left, describing
a wide half circle under cover
to bring it back on to the original
path behind its unsuspecting ad,
versary, who can be caught un-
awares,
On one occasion Selous had a
miraculous escape from death
when his rifle failed him, He
was pursuing a bull buffalo on
horsebaek, and when, it turned
he fired twice, but both cart-
ridges were duds, The buffalo
charged full gallop at him,
Grabbing his spare gun Selous
was just able to fire from, his
almost point-blank range as his
horse jumped aside.
It was not quick enough,
Hors; rider and gun were
hurled into the air by the buf-
falo's huge horns.
The horse regained its feet at
once, and galloped off, leaving
Selous on the ground with the
angry bull gazing down at him
only a few yards away. Then,
with a snort of rage, the buffalo
lowered its head and charged.
Selous threw himself to one
side and cringed g's close to the
ground as possible, avoiding the
worst of the impact, but sustain-
ing a heavy blow on one shoulder
nevertheless.
For a moment he lay still ex-
pecting the animal to renew the
attack, for he knew that a buf-
falo will fight to the death.
This one proved the exception,
however. To his relief it kept -
going after it had passed him—
the only time he'd ever driven
off a raging beast with nothing
but dud bullets in his gun!
Although Selous became the
greatest hunter of his day, his
career was almost brought to an
end at its outset.
Soon after his arrival in Africa
he was taken out on his first
elephant hunt with two experi-
enced hunters. During the day
they decided to give chase to a
herd of giraffe they spotted in
the distance.
Selous was soon trailing the
more experienced horsemen, and
before long, unknown to hem,
he toppled off his horse. By the
time he had recovered he realiz-
ed he was lost, To make matters
worse, the horse had bolted,
known country.
He decided to make for a
leaving him' stranded in un-
distant range of hills in the inis-
taken belief that they were in
the vicinity of the base camp.
All night he wandered, and at
last reached the hills.
But there was no camp, 'nor
any signs of human habitation.
Altogether he spent two days
and nights utterly alone, with
only wild beasts for company,
and little to eat and drink.
-By a remarkable stroke of
luck, no lion or leopard attacked
him and he was suffering froni
nothing \ worse than extreme
hunger and frayed nerves when
at last he was picked up by a
couple of natives, who were able
to guide him safely back to
camp.
So what might have been
disastrous proved a useful lesson
for the young hunter. Never
again did he venture into the
wilds without carefully noting
landmarks as he went.
Naughty little Willie Frazer
Found his dad's electric razor;
rings and mats that once were
hairy
Now are bald, and so's the can-
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