CONTENTS. xi 



Chiefs — News of Gool Budden's Success — March into the Myanee Valley — A Hill 

 Village — Treat Some Patients — A Grand Chasm — Keach Bhowdlkali — Thirty- 

 two Elephants Captured — A Man Killed — A Portion of the Herd Gives Trouble 

 — We are Obliged to Let Them Go — An Elephant Pays Me a Midnight Visit 

 — Attacks my Tent — The Guard Punished — Shoot the Elephant — Complete a 

 Kheddah in Two Days and Capture Thirteen Elephants — Jungle - Products — 

 Commence Eeturn-Marcli to Eungamuttea — Young Elephant liilled by a Tiger 

 — I Shoot the Spoiler — Weight of a Tiger — Shoot a Troublesome Tusker — Lost 

 in the Forest — Chorus of Elephants — A Hill-Dog — His Sagacity and Attachment 

 — Eeach Eungamuttea — Sad Mishap — Three Elephants Drowned — Joomas Eating 

 Elephants — March to Dacca — Statement of Casualties. . . . .153 



CHAPTER XIY. 



RIFLES AND CAMP-MANAGEMENT. 



General Eemarks — Heavy Eifles — Opinions of Sir Samuel Baker and the Late Cap- 

 tain James Forsyth upon Eifles — Heavy Game — Light Game — 4 and 8 Bore 

 Eifles — Heavy Charges — Battery for Indian Sport — Express Eifles — Objections 

 to the Express for Heavy Game — Shells — Camp-Arrangements — Malarial Fever — 

 Probably Only Contracted at Night — Precaution against Malaria — Necessity 

 for Sleeping Off the Ground — Camp-Fires — Temperance — Boiled and Distilled 

 Water — Indian Servants. . . . . . , , .176 



CHAPTER XV. 



ELEPHANT- SHOOTING. 



Government Prohibition Eegarding Elephant-Shooting — The True King of Beasts — 

 Peculiar Excitement of Elephant-Shooting — Danger of the Sport — The Wild 

 Elephant's Mode of Attack — Structure of the Elephant's Head — The Brain — The 

 Best Shots — Guns for Elephant-Shooting — Sir Samuel Baker's Opinion — Shoot- 

 ing Elephants behind the Shoulder — The Former Method of Shooting with 

 "Jinjalls" — The Elephant's Character as an Animal of Sport — Circumstances 

 under wliich they usually Attack Man — How to Find the Tuskers in a Herd — 

 The Alarm-Signal — Elephants' Eushes — Danger of Shouting at Elephants — A 

 Courageous Female in the Chittagong Hills — Kills a Man — Charges my Eiding- 

 Elephant — Floor Her — Another Charging Female in Kakenkot^ — Single Ele- 

 phants — Their Habits — Elephants Lying Down — Their Skill in Eetreating — How 

 to Follow Wounded Elephants — Danger of Shooting Eogue Elephants not Greater 

 than Attacking Herds — Taking out Tusks — Dead Elephants — Native Ideas about 

 their Flesh in Mysore — In Chittagong — Preparing Feet for Footstools. . .187 



