15° AN AMUSING INCIDENT. 



It was a sight to see him come against a good sized tree and 

 knock it down, but the bamboo clumps bothered him ex- 

 tremely ; he pushed up against them with all his force, they 

 cracked and split and bent, but he could not force his way 

 through them ; his rage at times was very great, he would 

 knock a tree down, trample it under foot and kick it back- 

 wards and forwards. I tried to induce him to move towards 

 Takedy by occasionally throwing a stone at him, but this only 

 made him still more furious, so finding we could do no more 

 with him in the way of driving him I left him alone, and as it 

 was near five o'clock and he was evidently getting weaker 

 and could not go far we returned home. The next morning 

 I went out to look for him and found him dead a few yards 

 beyond where we had left him on the previous evening. 

 I made him by measurement nine feet two inches at the 

 shoulder, and his tusks one foot five and a half and one 

 foot five in circumference, five feet four and a half inches 

 and four feet nine inches respectively in length. 



On the 20th September, 1856, I started for a day at 

 Perevai-Colum, my principal object being to try if I could 

 kill a buck cheetul. As the elephant keepers wanted meat I 

 took two of them with me, but just beyond the first nullah 

 Atley pulled up at the fresh track of a herd of elephants ; I 

 sent the Mussulmen back, and away we went after the Hutties. 

 Early in the chase we came upon two bull bison feeding 

 together, they were both fine, but one of them was particularly 

 handsome with fine wide-spreading horns ; what a snort he 

 gave as he stood broadside on, wondering where the strange 

 noise came from (I was tapping the stock of my rifle with 

 my hand). How I should like to have plugged him, but; 

 the track of the elephants was so fresh that I was obliged 



