Contents. xliii. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Elephants. 



PAGE 



The Indian Elephant — In Captivity — Their Intelligence and Sagacity — Their 

 Sunday's Puddings — Constitution Changes by Domestication — Elephants 

 in their Wild State — Their Power of Scent — Wonderful Examples of 

 Engineering — Their Size— Caution when Stalking them — My First 

 Tusker— The Tusker without a Tail — An Amusing Incident — Elephant 

 and Bison — Coming on a Herd and the Result — Capture of a Youngster 

 — The Tables Turned — Heels over Head— A Strange Shot — Last Trip 

 after Elephants — The Great Tusker of Hassanoor — His Death — My Last 

 Elephant — Brooke stops the Charge ... ... ... ... 136 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Tigers, Leopards, &c. 



Tigers — Difficulty of Seeing Them — Amalgamation of Colour with Surround- 

 ing Objects — Tiger with Jackal — Tigers and Wild Dogs — Their Fear of 

 Dogs — Power of Tiger's Jaws and Limbs — Their Noiseless Movements — _ 

 Man Eaters — Tiger's Dread of Man — The Mode of Striking its Prey — 

 Rapidity of Stroke — Shooting Tigers on Foot — Dangers of the Sport — 

 Sir James Outram — His Wonderful Escape — Tigers and Sambur — 

 Tigers and Putrid Flesh — Power of Scent — Sir Samuel Baker's Opinion 

 — H.R.H. Discovers his Mistake — The Cheeky Rascal — Size of Tigers 

 — My First Tiger — Exciting Chase after a Tiger — The Vultures will 

 Bring Him Out — Rather a Surprise — Exciting Rencontre with Three 

 Tigers — Tiger and Wild Boar — A Fierce Fight — Tiger Stared out of 

 Countenance — Look Out! He's Coming — What I saw on Jan. 31, 1868 

 — Tiger and Hinds — My Last Tiger — Tiger Stories — Shooting Tigers 

 from an Elephant — Colonel Geoffrey Nightingale's Letter — The Leopard 

 — The Black Leopard — His Death — The Jungle Cat — Loss of my dog 

 Snob — The Hares are Witches — Clarke's Theory — Leopards on the Trees 

 — My Last Leopard ... ... ... ... ... ... 165 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Bison of Southern India — Size of the Old Bulls-Danger in Stalking 

 Them — Col. Campbell's Misnomer — Large Horns — My First Bison — 

 Adventure with old Emam — Wound and Lose an Enormous Bull — More 

 Lucky with the Next — A Grand Fight with Another — Capture a Small 

 Calf and take him Home — No More Bullets — My Last Resource — Very 

 much Astonished on Both Sides — A Tall Shot at a Bull at Speed — Not 

 the Pleasantest Moment of my Life — A Narrow Escape — A Big Bull 

 stops the Way — My Last Bison — The Big Bull of Peer-mund ... 236 



