324 THE RIFLE AND HOUND TN CE YLON. chap. xii. 



through the high lemon grass to look for his dead 

 elephant. 



On arriving at the spot, instead of finding a dead 

 elephant, he found him standing up, and only just re- 

 covered from the stunning effect of his wound. 



The elephant charged him immediately ; and 

 Palliser, having the lock of his gun tied up, was per- 

 fectly defenceless, and he was obliged to run as hard 

 as his long legs would carry him. 



' Look out ! look out ! an elephant's coming ! 

 Look out ! ' 



This we heard shouted as we were standing beneath 

 the tree, and the next moment we saw Palliser's tall 

 form of six feet four come flying through the high grass. 

 Luckily the elephant lost him, and turned off in some 

 other direction. If he had continued the chase, he 

 would have made a fine diversion, as the locks were 

 so tightly tied up that we could not have got a gun 

 ready for some time. In a few minutes the shower 

 cleared off, and on examining the place where the 

 elephant had fallen, we found a large pool of clotted 

 blood 



We now rode homeward, but we had not gone a 

 quarter of a mile before we heard an elephant roaring 

 loudly in a jungle close to as. Thinking that it was 

 the wounded brute who had just hunted Palliser, we 

 immediately dismounted and approached the spot. 

 The roaring continued until we were close to it, and 



