Thus no animal is spared whose flesh can be passed off for deer.

Fortunately, their guns are so common that they will not shoot with accuracy beyond ten or fifteen paces, or there would be no game left within a few years.

How these common guns stand the heavy charges of powder is a puzzle.

A native thinks nothing of putting four drachms down a gun that I should be sorry to fire off at any rate.

It is this heavy charge which enables such tools to kill elephants which would otherwise be impossible.