ELEPHANT HUNTING IN THE EAST DUES. 



CHAPTER LIII. 



BLEPHANT HUNTING IN THE EAST INDIES. 



IEUT.-COL. JAMjSS 

 CAMPBELL, -d. bravs 

 and talented officer, af- 

 fords us the following 

 particulars of a personal 

 adventure in Ceylon : 

 1 was reading to beguile 

 the time during- the heat 

 of the day (says the colo 

 nel) when one of the 

 servants ran into our hut, 

 in gr?at alarm, exdaiming 

 lhat he luid just seen an elephant in a clump .f trees, to which he 

 pointed, not more than three hundred yards on". I, at least, had no 

 wish whatever to encounter such an antagonist, if 1 could avoid 

 doing so ; but it was in council deemed advisable to dislodge him, 

 as otherwise we might have to move our encampment ; and to do 

 ( none of us were inclined. It was therefore settled that we 



