HUNTING IN THE EAST INDIES. 



euid most furious of the fighting elephants were then brought up 

 to engage him ; but he attacked them with such fury that they 

 were all obliged to desist. In his struggle with one of them he 

 broke one of his tusks, and the broken piece, which was upwards 

 of two inches in diameter, of solid ivory, flew up into the air 

 several yards above their heads. Orders were now given to kill 

 him, as it appeared impossible to take him alive ; but even this 

 was not accomplished without the greatest difficulty. He twice; 

 turned and attacked the party who pursued him ; and in one ol 

 these attacks struck the elephant obliquely on which the prince 

 rode, threw him upon his side, but then passed on without offering 

 farther injury. At last he fell dead, after having received up 

 wards of one thousand balls into his body. 



ILXFHAMT HUJfT. 



