You can imagine the fun of having a lot of wildly excited Arabs firing
from the opposite side of the circle straight in your direction at the
animal in between you!
Fortunately on this occasion the first few shots killed him, and there
were no other deaths to record.
The Arabs themselves see no special danger in it, because, they say,
the guns are all pointing downwards at the animal, and if the bullet
misses him it will only bury itself in the ground.
That is all very well, but it might as likely as not hit a stone and
glance up again and catch one in the eye or elsewhere that might be
unpleasant.
Personally, I did not hold with that kind of shooting, but the Arabs
seemed to enjoy it so much and were so cheery and jolly over it that
I, too, had to smile and look as if I liked it.
There is plenty of game near Tunis, and this day we saw two dead wild
boars being brought in.
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ELEPHANTS USED IN WAR.
In the old days, as I told you, Carthage was the London of that time,
being a city of 700,000 inhabitants, and the capital of a great
empire, which had overseas colonies in Spain, Corsica, and Sicily.
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