15G ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



against this noble game. The following is an abridg- 

 ment of a narrative from the pen of the Marchioness 

 of Hastings, and published in the Miscellany of Natural 

 History, herself being the heroine of the chase : 



' The field was taken in quest of three lions, supposed 

 to be lurking near the tents. The ground was flat and 

 ploughed. When we came to the edge of the jungle, 

 we halted a little ; the people came round in crowds, 

 and in a few minutes the trees were covered with men, 

 placed there by Fraser for observation. When we were 

 sent for, we found Eraser by the side of the great canal. 

 He had received intelligence of both a lion and a tiger, 

 and he desired Barton and myself to go down upon an 

 elephant, watch the bed of the canal, and move slowly 

 to the south, while he advanced in a contrary direction. 

 The rest of the party were to beat the jungle above, 

 which was too thick to admit the passage of an elephant 

 through it. We fell in with Fraser where the canal 

 was a little wider, and neither of us had been success- 

 ful, though we had searched every bush with our eyes 

 in passing along. He desired us to wait till he had 

 mounted the bank to look after the rest of the elephants. 

 He had hardly gone away before a lioness crossed the 

 narrow neck of the canal, just before us, and clambered 

 up the opposite bank. I fired, but missed her, and she 

 ran along the bank to the westward. We turned round, 

 and had the mortification of seeing her again go through 

 the water, at which our elephant became refractory, 

 wheeled about, and was so unsteady as to prevent us 

 from firing. We followed her up to the thicket, put the 

 elephant's head into it, and we heard the lioness growl- 

 ing close to us. Just as we were expecting her charge 

 and had prepared our guns, round wheeled the elephant 



