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tivity of a deer he sprang from rock to rock, \vhile we 

 of course ran to his assistance, and arrived close to the 

 elephant just as Banda had reached a high block of 

 stone, which furnished him an asylum. A shot from 

 Palliser brought the elephant upon his knees, but, im- 

 mediately recovering himself, he ran round a large rock. 

 I ran round the other side, and killed him dead within 

 four paces. 



Upon descending the opposite side of the pass we 

 arrived in flat, open country, and on the left of the road 

 we saw another elephant, a " rogue," in high lemon 

 grass. We tried to get a shot at him, but it was of no 

 use ; the grass was so high and thick that, after trying 

 several experiments, we declined following him in such 

 ground. We arrived at Nielgalla in the evening with- 

 out further sport : here we killed a few couple of snipe 

 in the paddy-fields, which added to our dinner. 



Dec. 10. Having beaten several miles of country 

 without seeing any signs of elephants, we came unex- 

 pectedly upon a herd of wild buffaloes ; they were 

 standing in beautiful open ground, interspersed with 

 trees, about a hundred and ten paces from us. I gave 

 Palliser my heavy rifle, as he was very anxious to get a 

 pair of good horns, and with the pleasure of a specta- 

 tor I watched the sport. He made a good shot with 

 the four-ounce and dropped the foremost buffalo ; the 

 herd galloped off, but he broke the hind leg of another 

 buffalo with one of the No. 10 rifles, and, after a chase 

 of a couple of hundred yards, he came up with the 

 wounded beast, who could not extricate himself from a 

 deep gully of water, as he could not ascend the steep 

 bank on three legs. A few more shots settled him. 



We gave up all ideas of elephants for this day after 

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