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CHAPTER XVI. 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING. 



CAMP AT POONJOOR — WANT OF RAIN — MOVE CAMP — A TIGER IN A SHOLAGA's HUT — SHO- 

 LAGA TRACKERS — A TROUBLESOME COUGH — FIND ELEPHANTS — MANOEUVRE TO GET A 

 SHOT — KILL A TUSKER — I NARROWLY ESCAPE AN INGLORIOUS END — JUNGLE-TRACKERS 

 — MY YOUTHFUL TRACKER GORRAVA — THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HITTING AND BAG- 

 GING! — PERSEVERANCE — THE KAKANKOTE^ ROGUE— HIS HABITS — KILLS TWO TRAVELLERS 

 — KAKANKOTE' — THE CUBBANY RIVER — FOREST — KURRABAS — THEIR HABITS, FOOD, 

 APPEARANCE, DWELLINGS — GARROW AND CHITTAGONG WILD TRIBES' DWELLINGS — 

 KURRABAS' METHODS OF CATCHING WILD ANIMALS — THE FLYING SQUIRREL — ETHNO- 

 LOGY OF THE KURRABAS — OLD POOJAREE — JUNGLE TRIBES' FEAR OF ELEPHANTS — I 

 REACH KAKANKOTE TO HUNT THE ROGUE— NEWS OF HIM — TRACK HIM — HEAVY RAIN 

 — FIRE AT THE ROGUE — WILD ELEPHANTS' RUSHES — THE ROGUE ESCAPES — MELAN- 

 CHOLY REFLECTIONS. 



IT was in July 1870 that I had obtained ten days' leave of absence, which 

 it was my intention to devote to a bear and bison shooting expedition at 

 Poonjoor. I had already sent on my tents and servants from Mysore, and 

 on the day before my leave commenced I managed to be at Atticulpoor, on 

 the extreme limit of my district, so as to commence shooting without loss 

 of time. I spent the day in casting bullets and making other preparations, 

 and in viewing with pleasant anticipation the Billiga-rungun hills, stretching 

 before me in a grand blue line. The day was delightfully cool and cloudy, 

 and the highest peaks were often hidden in the mists. "With my glass I 

 could see a mass of rocks away on the left, twenty miles distant, where I 

 had captured a pair of tiger-cubs two months before ; also the valley where 

 I had shot my first bison, and other places endeared to me by similar 

 recollections. 



Having taken some coffee and biscuits early next morning, I jumped 

 into my trap with my guns, which the horsekeeper held whilst I drove, 



