264 ELEPHANT-HUNTING [ch. x 



good work with elephants, although I kept to my belief 

 that, for such very heavy game, my Holland -500 to -450 

 was an even better weapon. 



Not far from where this elephant fell Tarlton had, 

 the year before, witnessed an interestnig incident. He 

 was watching a small herd of elephants, cows and 

 calves, which were in the open, when he saw them 

 begin to grow uneasy. Then, with a shrill trumpet, a 

 cow approached a busli, out of which bounded a big 

 lion. Instantly all the cows charged him, and he fled 

 as fast as his legs would carry him for the forest, two 

 hundred yards distant. He just managed to reach the 

 cover in safety, and then tlie infuriated cows, in their 

 anger at his escape, demolished the forest for several 

 rods in every direction. 



