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turned our horses loose to graze upon a soft sweet grass 

 with which this part of the park is covered. We had 

 the grayhounds with us and a single rifle, but no other 

 guns, as the servants were far behind. Having given 

 directions to the horse-keepers to point out the spot for 

 the tents on the arrival of the people, we took a stroll 

 with the grayhounds to get a deer, as we depended upon 

 this chance for our dinner. 



Just as we were starting, we noticed two large ele- 

 phants feeding on the rocky hills within a quarter of a 

 mile of us ; but having no guns up with the exception 

 of one rifle, we were obliged to postpone the attack, 

 and, cautioning the horse-keepers to observe silence lest 

 the game should be alarmed, we left the elephants to 

 their meal, while we struck off in another direction with 

 the grayhounds. We found a herd of deer within half . 

 a mile of our starting-place ; they had just come out 

 from the forest for the night's feeding ; and when I first 

 saw them, they were barking to each other in a small 

 glade within sixty paces of the jungle. Dinner de- 

 pending upon success, I stalked them with the greatest 

 caution. Taking Killbuck and Lena in the slips, I 

 crept from tree to tree without the slightest noise ; I had 

 the wind, and if any dogs could kill a deer in the diffi- 

 cult position in which the herd stood, these two dogs I 

 knew would do it. I got within sixty yards of the herd 

 before they observed me, and as they dashed off* toward 

 the jungle, I slipped the straining grayhounds. A loud 

 cheer to the dogs confused the herd, and they scattered 

 to the right and left as they gained the forest, the dogs 

 being close up with them, and Killbuck almost at a 

 buck's throat as he reached the jungle. Following as 

 well as I could through the the dusky jungle, I shortly 

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