CHAPTER II. 



A ROGUE ELEPHANT. 



'' Coining events cast their shadows before." 



An Indian spread. — Lieut. "Wedderburn. — " The dead charger." — 

 News of elephant.— Arrangements and start. — A voyage in a 

 strangecraft. — Alligators. — The Moyaar jungle. — TheMuntjak. 

 — The silent approach of deer. — The Loris. — Native super- 

 stition. — The route. — A Mulcher village. — News of a rogue 

 elephant. — Therencontre. — An awkward position. — Therogue's 

 cunning. — The charge. — Life and death on the shot. — An 

 unlooked-for coincidence. — The bivouac. — Evident traces of a 

 comrade's handiwork. — The elephant his own doctor. — The 

 bivouac. — The bullets recognized. — No fresh spoor to be found. 

 — Eeturn to camp. — Pot hunting — A blank hunt for spoor. 

 — "Wedderburn's non-appearance. — Eeturn to the Hills. — Sad 

 news. — The Mulchers' prophecy fulfilled. — Lieut. Wedderburn's 

 shocking death from an enraged wounded elephant. 



Feasting and revelry were at their height in the 

 Shekarry's den (Burnside Cottage, above the Mala- 

 mund), and never were there a merrier set of 

 fellows than those assembled that evening to "wet" 



