100 HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. 



the elephant, his keeper on his back, advanced into the 

 arena. At the sight of the huge animal the tiger nttered 

 a long howl, which was most evidently one of terror, 

 for he sprang against the palisade several times, and 

 did his best to break it down and escape. At sight of 

 him the elephant became madly excited, and made 

 straight at him, blocking his wild efforts at flight, 

 and almost trampling him under foot, before he real- 

 ized that fight was the only alternative. Then, and 

 only then, he sprang upon the head of his adversary 

 and endeavored to maintain his hold with claws and 

 teeth. But the elephant wound his enormous trunk 

 around the tiger's body, lifted hi in in the air, and hurled 

 him, bruised and broken, down upon the ground twenty 

 feet away. The tiger was half dead, and wholly help- 

 less, and lay where he fell in a stupor. This exploit 

 accomplished, the victor did not deign to push his 

 triumph farther, but turned and saluted the Nabob in 

 our box as respectfully as would a slave, and peaceably 

 departed through the door by which he had entered, 

 without paying any attention to the applause and cheers 

 that followed him. 



The remaining festivities were then postponed until 

 the next day, when, after breakfast in the garden of the 

 Nabob, we adjourned to a tent on the river-bank at a 

 favorite bathing-place of the elephants, where we were 

 to see a fight between two of the largest of them. The 

 plain was covered with a dense crowd of people, and a 



I 



