Hunting in Many Lands 



be a rogue that had killed two villagers and 

 done at intervals a good deal of damage to the 

 crops. An old native tracker had guaranteed 

 to show me this elephant. He kept his word. 

 For three or four miles we had a very exciting 

 track, and then came on him standing in the 

 jungle, occasionally flapping his ears, and crept 

 up to within thirty yards. I think he was 

 asleep and I got a perfectly good shot, but, 

 extraordinary to say, I missed. However, 

 when he ran I went after him, and, getting 

 very close, I shot him in the hip, so injuring 

 his leg that he could not get away. He could 

 still get round after us, and we passed a most 

 lively half-hour, he trumpeting and charging 

 incessantly, until, after expending a great 

 quantity of cartridges, I finally put a bullet 

 behind his eye, and down he went. 



Soon after this I went back to Kandy, and 

 early in December left India for good. 



Elliott Roosevelt. 



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