1 24 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



Once, whilst lying in wait for a wounded tiger, our 

 shikaries were unexpectedly charged by an elephant 

 and had to run for their lives, fortunately the angle 

 was not favourable, so we did not fire and lucky it 

 was for us that we did not, for it turned out to be a 

 run-away elephant belonging to the Gairapore rajah 

 on which he placed a great value. He, with the aid 

 of our elephants, next day recaptured it, but it was 

 in a state of must and had to be tied up away from 

 all the others, with the exception of a female on each 

 side, who soothed him during his violent fits. 



