Good post!
From what Ive read of Bell having a nervous disposition around elephant it was more like a kid on Xmas than a quasi frightened hunter
He didn't seem to get rattled by much. While others have written complete books about Man eating leopards ( Not to EVER short Col. Corbett�) I remember a passage by Bell who was once asked to sit up at night for a man eating leopard. He said he could hear it coming through the village by its throaty cough, referred to it as an "impudent bastard" and shot it. No more details
REALLY liked his story of accidentally shooting down the French Spad�.
