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well-taught attendant, who had been originally trained by Colonel 

 Henry Shakespear, the well-known author of the " Wild sports of 

 India," I was once, for some moments, which almost seemed to be 

 hours, waiting in long grass and reeds within a few feet (not 

 yards) of the head of a very fine elephant without being able to 

 get a satisfactory shot at him ; or even to see more than an indis- 

 tinct dusky outline of form, or a dark shadow, as his trunk was 

 raised aloft when the mighty beast, a magnificent tusker, suspected 

 that he scented mischief. Having at length made sure that there 

 was something uncanny near him, he uttered a shrill scream and 

 wheeled right round on the very spot on which he stood, and, with- 

 out exposing any more vulnerable target than his enormous hind 

 quarters, at which it would have been wicked and wanton cruelty 

 to shoot, rushed down hill, followed by his family, eight or ten un- 

 wieldy wives and sturdy children, whose progress as they crashed 

 through the dense wood and undergrowth of long grass, caused a 

 noise sufficient to startle any one whose nerves were not tightly 

 braced, and which my pen certainly is too weak to describe. Having 

 once found the herd it was easy enough, as the wind was favorable, 

 to get up to the animals ; for we were guided by the noise they 

 made while feeding, but it was simply impossible to see him until 

 they fled. A large female who was standing, apparently asleep 

 and close to the large " tusker," might however have been very 

 easily shot had he not offered a more tempting bait. 



Since the above notes were written, I have seen in the South of 

 India Observer of the 22nd October 1868, the following extract 

 from one of my friend HAWKEYE'S letters, which appears so apro 

 pos to their subject that I do not hesitate to appropriate it. 



In mentioning the manner in which an elephant, when he wishes 

 to intimidate, blows with his trunk, HAWKEYE writes as follows : 



" On another occasion I was blown at by a wild elephant, who 

 " threw her trunk out from behind the jungle lining the narrow path 

 " along which we were running to intercept the herd, and blew her 

 " nose so suddenly in the chest and face of the leading man that he 

 " fell right back on me. We had cut this elephant off from its 

 " companions and having a young calf to take care of, she had 

 ** loitered behind the herd, In this case we noticed what I have 



