This, of course, gives the hunter a good opportunity of delivering his fire, and avoiding the deadly encounter of the elephant.
Now in several elephant-hunts which they had lately made, our hunters had run some very narrow risks.

Their quaggas were neither so manageable nor so quick in their movements as horses would have been, and this rendered the hazard still greater.

Some of them might one day fall a victim.

So feared Von Bloom; and he would gladly have given for a number of dogs an elephant's tusk a-piece--even though they were the most worthless of curs.

Indeed, their quality is but of slight importance.