CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



My First Steeple-chase . . . .1 



The ravages of time. — Indian sportsmen. — The rose-coloured 

 note and its consequences. — " The Land of the East." — 

 " Moonlight."— My first steeple-chase.— Preliminaries.— 

 The start.— The race and the result. 



CHAPTER 11. 

 A Rogue Elephant . . . . .18 



An Indian Spread.— Lieut. Wedderbum.— The dead charger. 

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

 in a strange craft.— Alligators.— The Moyaar jungle.— The 

 Muntjak. — The silent approach of deer. — The Loris. — 

 Native superstition. — The route. — A Mulcher village. — 

 News of a rogue elephant. — The rencontre.— An awkward 

 position.— The rogue'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. — Wedder- 

 burn's non-appearance. — Eeturn to the HiUs. — Sad news. 

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

 shocking death from an enraged wounded elephant. 



