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CHAPTER XVII. 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING — {continued). 



SECOND EXPEDITION AFTER THE ROGUE — HE KILLS A KURRABA — WOUND HIM — A CHASE 

 — KILL HIM — HOW TO MAKE FIRE WITH TWO STICKS — ROLL THE ROGUE's CARCASS 

 OVER — CUT OFF HIS HEAD — PLACE HIS HEAD ON VIEW BY THE ROADSIDE — THE 

 rogue's impertinent friend THE MUCKNA — TAKE HIM DOWN A PEG — MY BEST 

 TUSKER — AN EXCITING HUNT — LARGE TUSKS — WOUND HIM — THE PROVERBIAL STERN- 

 CHASE — ENCOUNTER HIM AGAIN — FURTHER PURSUIT — KILL HIM — REFLECTIONS — 

 SHOOT AN ELEPHANT IN A PIT BY ACCIDENT — A SPORTING PARSON — THE GARROW 

 niLLS — NARROW ESCAPE FROM A TUSKER — SIR VICTOR BROOKE AND COLONEL HAMIL- 

 TON'S BIG TUSKER — A COMMON ELEPHANT-SHOOTING STORY — ELEPHANTS' POWERS OF 

 GETTING OVER WOUNDS. 



FIVE months after the incidents related in the last chapter I again fonnd 

 myself at Kakankote on a second campaign against the rogue. He 

 had temporarily deserted the neighbourhood, as anticipated by the Kurrabas, 

 after the rough usage he had been subjected to, but had now returned, evi- 

 dently not improved in temper, and had marked his arrival by killing a 

 Kurraba, a relative of one of the trackers I had with me on our late expe- 

 dition. The Kurraba was surprised when digging roots in the jungle, but 

 would probably not have been caught had he been alone. Two youthful 

 aborigines were with him, and it was after putting them up a tree, and in 

 attempting to follow, that he was pulled down and torn limb from limb by 

 the elephant. The Kurrabas who found the body said that the elephant 

 had held the unfortunate man down with one fore-foot, whilst with his trunk 

 he tore legs and arms from their sockets, and jerked them to some distance. 

 Under ordinary circumstances an elephant has no chance of catching a Kur- 

 raba ; they dodge in the underwood like rabbits, and are out of sight in a 

 moment. 



It was on Cliristmas Day, 1872, that I started with the Kurrabas for a 



