ELEPHANT SHOOTING 



elephants into the Berrambadie forest, where there 

 was, I heard, more grass, rig up an impromptu 

 kheddah there, and try to capture at least a few 

 animals. 



I was in camp at Moluhollay, where, as I have 

 mentioned, Colonel and Mrs. G. came for a few 

 days, in order that the former might try for bison. 



Even here the grass which had sprung up had 

 withered, and the ground was hard on account of 

 the drought. 



I set to work in real earnest, selected a suitable 

 spot, and got a stockade ready. One day, when 

 I was going out on this work, I suggested to 

 Colonel G. to take his wife on one of the tame 

 elephants and show her the forest, and he did so, 

 the lady riding a very large tame tusker. On my 

 return to camp from work in the evening, some 

 Kurrabas, who had been out with Colonel G., came 

 from him to tell me that a wild tusker had been for 

 a long time, and was still, following the tusker 

 on which Mrs. G. was mounted. The situation 

 appeared to me to be a very perilous one for the 

 lady. The Kurrabas said that the wild elephant 

 wanted to fight with the tame one, and indeed, 

 apart from that hypothesis, it was not easy to 

 understand the wild animal's object in following 

 a tusker. The men told me that the Colonel 

 wanted me to bring tame elephants and ropes, and 

 to try to secure the intruder. Taking my 8-bore 

 rifle, and passing through the space in which the 

 tame elephants were picketed, I gave the necessary 

 orders, and then went on to join the Colonel, whom 



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