ioo Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



I was standing on was somewhat hollowed out under- 

 neath and fully twelve feet in perpendicular height 

 off the ground. If he turned to either side to get at 

 our flanks he would expose the shoulder shot or the 

 temple one, but the mad brute came straight on. He 

 looked like a fiend. Yet there I stood, a puny 

 creature compared to him, perfectly at my ease, for 

 I knew he could not touch me and I could punish 

 him terribly. I gave him the left barrel when he was 

 about twelve paces off, but it did not stop him. I 

 coolly proceeded to load, putting in less powder this 

 time, taking care to stand back out of reach of my 

 antagonist's proboscis. When he got to the ledge 

 and could find no way up it, his rage was awful. He 

 tore now at the solid rock, he shrieked, he tossed up 

 the ground, and then, seizing a stout sapling, he half 

 drew himself up and might almost have succeeded had 

 not his weight torn it from its frail hold in the ground, 

 and over he and the tree went together ! I could not 

 see him for some time for the dust. Again I was 

 ready for him. He picked himself up and finding he 

 could not reach me in front rushed along parallel, 

 seeking some declivity less inaccessible. That could 

 not be allowed, so I planted two bullets behind the 

 shoulder ; but those were shots I was not accustomed 

 to, as they are seldom used in India. I could not have 

 hit my foe in a vital spot, for he continued his career. 

 Although the elephant could not ascend the ledge, it 

 was easy for me to let myself down, and in a few 

 minutes we had changed places. When he found 

 he was baffled again, he became madder than ever, 

 and I do believe he would have thrown himself over 

 the rock to get at me, when I fired my other rifle, 



