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within shot for some time, but his guns were wet through, and 

 not one of them would go off. At Tuen he and Lloyd had 

 killed two gaur and two stags ; Lloyd had been recalled, but 

 said he would follow in a day or two. 



May 1 8. Hill rode back to Kyoukee. George and I went 

 out ; we killed some deer, saw a herd of tsine and followed 

 it on foot for hours, but failed to get within shot : the old bull 

 in the distance looked black. We then mounted our elephants, 

 and saw gaur, but had no luck. On getting back to camp found 

 Watson and Hill there, and Lloyd also arrived in the evening. 

 May 19. We all started very early in the pouring rain. 

 George broke the leg of a sambur, and I killed it for him ; a 

 little further on, a gaur got up almost under the trunk of 

 Lloyd's elephant, and everybody, with the exception of myself, 

 fired shot after shot at it, but it got away. We soon saw 

 another herd of gaur, but the jungles had been over-burnt 

 we could not get nearer than 150 yards. I wanted Hill to 

 bag a gaur ; I told him to fire at a monster which was nearest 

 to us. Hill let fly and hit his. Lloyd fired at another and 

 wounded his ; they took opposite directions, and off went the 

 ardent sportsmen full chase. As Hill was alone, George and 

 I followed him ; Lloyd, having Shoayjah, could find his way 

 about, but Hill could not. I had mounted Hill on my fastest 

 elephant, and he soon distanced us and got out of sight, but 

 as he kept up a constant file fire, we followed in his wake. 

 In the other direction we heard Lloyd popping away, whilst 

 we two did not get a shot. Hill pulled up after leading us a 

 wild-goose chase for two hours, and did not bag his beast 

 after all. He had the tiffin basket behind his howdah. We 

 sat down to breakfast not in the sweetest of tempers, for Hill 

 had led us away from all the best ground ; and Lloyd, equally 

 unsuccessful, turned up in an hour. He, too, was savage that 

 neither of us had gone with him, as he said, with help he could 

 have got his beast, whom he had reduced to a walk ; but it 

 had got into a brake and escaped. On the way back I shot 

 two hamadryads nearly 10 feet each, with ball right and left; 

 these are the most venomous of all poisonous snakes. Lloyd 

 shot a sucking-pig, which proved capital eating. We also got 

 several deer. 



