The Lion and the Elephant

"I and my Hottentots have killed eight hundred elephants." -Charles Andersson "Trodden on by elephants, ripped up by the horn of a rhinoceros, suffering hunger and thirst, our author has survived all these dangers to write us a very interesting book." -The Rambler, 1856 "Charles Andersson was attacked and crushed to death by a wounded elephant...his passion for hunting led him into needless dangers." - New American Cyclopaedia, 1857 " As a martyr, Mr. Andersson is entitled to the sympathy of his