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stealthily as a cat. So noiselessly did he move that 

 we presently saw him gliding back to us without a 

 sound. He whispered that he had found the elephant, 

 who was standing on the patina, a few yards beyond the 

 jungle. We immediately advanced, and upon emerg- 

 ing from the jungle we saw him within thirty paces on 

 our right, standing with his broadside exposed. Crack 

 went the four-ounce through his shoulder, and the 

 three-ounce and No. 8, with a similar good intention, 

 into his head. Nevertheless he did not fall, but 

 started off at a great pace, though stumbling nearly 

 on his knees, his head and tail both hanging down, 

 his trunk hanging listlessly upon the ground ; and his 

 ears, instead of being cocked, were pressed tightly 

 back against his neck. He did not look much like a 

 rogue at that moment, with upwards of half a pound 

 of lead in his carcass. Still we could not get another 

 shot at him before he reached a jungle about seventy 

 paces distant ; and here we stopped to load before we 

 followed him, thinking that he was in dense chenar. 

 This was a great mistake, for, on following him a 

 minute later, we found the jungle was perfectly open, 

 being merely a fringe of forest on the banks of a broad 

 river ; in crossing this we must have killed him had we 

 not stopped to load. 



On the sandy bed of this river we found the fresh 

 tracks of several elephants, who had evidently only 

 just retreated, being disturbed by the shots fired; these 

 were a portion of the herd ; and the old rogue having 



