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CHAPTER XIII. 



AN ELEPHANT-CATCHING EXPEDITION INTO THE HILL-TRACTS 



OF CHiTTAGONG — (continued.) 



A GHOSTLY NIGHT VISITOR — SECURING THE WILD ELEPHANTS — BADHApEARY — A VICIOUS 

 FEMALE ATTACKS ME — DANGEROUS POSITION — NARROW ESCAPE — RETURN TO GASBAN 

 — MEET A FELLOW-COUNTRYMAN — JOOMA ETIQUETTE — LIQUOR — WE DINE AT A JOOMA 

 chief's — NEWS OF GOOL BUDDEN's SUCCESS — JFARCH INTO THE MYANEE VALI:EY — 



A HILL VILLAGE — TREAT SOME PATIENTS — A GRAND CHASM — REACH BHOWALKALI 



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 ELE- 

 PHANT — COMPLETE A KHEDDAH IN TWO DAYS AND CAPTURE THIRTEEN ELEPHANTS — 

 JUNGLE-PRODUCTS — COMMENCE RETURN-MARCH TO RUNGAMUTTEA — YOUNG ELEPHANT 

 KILLED BY A TIGER — I SHOOT THE SPOILER — WEIGHT OP A TIGER — SHOOT A TROU- 

 BLESOME TUSKER — LOST IN THE FOREST — CHORUS OF ELEPHANTS — A HILL-DOG 



HIS SAGACITY AND ATTACHMENT — REACH RUNGAMUTTEA — SAD MISHAP — THREE 

 ELEPHANTS DROWNED — JOOMAS EATING ELEPHANTS — MARCH TO DACCA — STATEMENT 

 OF CASUALTIES. 



HAVING seen all made safe, and fires lighted round the stockade, I 

 returned to camp. It was intensely cold during the night, and 

 towards morning the falling dew pattered so heavily from the broad-leaved 

 trees around that I thought it was raining. I got up to look out, when I 

 saw the grey form of an elephant of large size, but with poor tusks, standing 

 silently in the foggy moonlight not more than thirty yards distant. He 

 looked like a spectre waving its ghostly arm, as he pointed his trunk in the 

 direction of the tame elephants and the tents by turns. I watched him 

 for some time as he stood listening intently, till he moved noiselessly away 

 in the direction of the tame elephants. He doubtless belonged to the 

 captured herd, and was attracted to camp by the presence of the elephants 

 with us. During the whole of the time we were out we were constantly 



