1 20 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



more accustomed to sitting on the bare back of an 

 elephant. We on that occasion caught nineteen in 

 three days, but with the exception of one koonkie 

 which fell over a fallen tree, and another elephant 

 not a hunter which fell into a pit-fall both were 

 somewhat damaged and laid up we met with no 

 particular adventures. One of these hunts is very 

 much like another, but while it lasts it is indeed 

 exciting. 



CAPTURING ELEPHANTS IN A KEDDAH. 



The late Mr. Sanderson has been greatly lauded 

 for the very successful captures he made whilst in 

 charge of the Government keddah. That he was a first- 

 rate man is undoubted he was unquestionably the 

 right man in the right place but it must be remem- 

 bered that he took charge of a thoroughly organised 

 department, and some portion of his success should be 

 accredited to the former incumbent, the late Mr. Nuttall, 

 with whom I hunted on two occasions. Mr. Sander- 

 son's success was due not only to the excellent training 

 of the elephants, their mahouts and superintendents, 

 and his own energy, but also to the fact that, the old 

 hunting grounds having been depleted in a great 

 measure, he opened out fresh grounds, and in com- 

 mencing operations in the Garrow Hills, it may be 

 said he " struck oil." There are two descriptions of 

 keddahs in use : one is merely a ditch about nine feet 

 broad at top, only a foot broad at bottom, and about six 

 feet deep ; the other a combination, a stockade with 

 or without a ditch. The latter is the commonest, for 

 most keddahs are constructed in forests where timber 



