X 2o6 WILD SPORTS OF BURMA AND ASSAM 



Poor old beast ! Thank God he was at last dead, for he 

 must have suffered fearful agonies. One eye was shot out, 

 the other all but closed by coagulated blood, and he had 

 received numerous wounds, yet the gallant brute never uttered 

 a groan, and died fighting to the last. His tusks were 4 

 feet 8 inches and 4 feet 6 inches respectively, but thick 

 and straight. By the foot measurement he was just 10 

 feet 2 inches high. 



But now where were we ? The shikarie climbed a tall tree, 

 took a good look all round, and when he descended, said if 

 we walked quickly we should get to the camp by night. 

 Before we had gone far a sambur crossed our path, which I 

 killed, and as I felt very tired and hungry, I preferred camping 

 out another night in the jungle and to have a square meal at 

 once, to tramping on on an empty stomach, with the chance 

 of reaching camp that night. 



The Burman soon broiled ^the liver, cut in slices, which we 

 ate, but Adam's ale was our only drink ! We rigged up a 

 shelter overhead, lit a fire, and slept the sleep of the weary 

 till close on daylight. We partook of another meal before 

 starting, and finally reached camp after mid-day. 



The coolie had returned and reported that he had seen me 

 trampled to death by the elephant, so my boy had gone to 

 where the encounter had taken place to pick up master's 

 bones, but finding one elephant dead and evidences that we 

 were in chase of another, he wisely returned to camp and 

 stuck to it until we should return. 



After a day's rest I took all hands, and as decomposition 

 had commenced we had no difficulty in extracting the tusks, 

 and soon made our way back to Mendoon, and thence by 

 boat to Namyan, where I got only a day after I was due, but 

 as I was my own master that did not signify. 



GENERAL BLAKE'S ADVENTURE 



"When coming up here (Tongho) I telegraphed for 

 elephants to meet me at Shoayghein, thinking I might as 

 well have a go in at Myetquin on my way up, but they were 



