We Awaited Daylight With Impatience, And At
The First Glimmer Of Dawn We Set Out To Hunt Him
Down.
I took a native tracker with me, so that I
was free to keep a good look-out, while Mahina
followed immediately behind with a Martini
carbine.
Splashes of blood being plentiful, we
were able to get along quickly; and we had
not proceeded more than a quarter of a mile
through the jungle when suddenly a fierce
warning growl was heard right in front of us.
Looking cautiously through the bushes, I could
see the man-eater glaring out in our direction,
and showing his tusks in an angry snarl. I at
once took careful aim and fired. Instantly he
sprang out and made a most determined charge
down on us. I fired again and knocked him
over; but in a second he was up once more and
coming for me as fast as he could in his crippled
condition. A third shot had no apparent effect,
so I put out my hand for the Martini, hoping to
stop him with it. To my dismay, however, it was
not there. The terror of the sudden charge had
proved too much for Mahina, and both he and
the carbine were by this time well on their way up
a tree. In the circumstances there was nothing
to do but follow suit, which I did without loss of
time: and but for the fact that one of my shots
had broken a hind leg, the brute would most
certainly have had me.
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