250 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER CH. 



ceptionally fond of the dog, and wherever I went on 

 my hunting expeditions always took him with me, 

 chaining him at night to one of my tent-poles, lest 

 he should be carried off by a lion or a leopard. One 

 night, it was a night of glorious tropical moon- 



THE AUTHOR'S BULL TERRIER 'BRANDY' 



shine, I had him chained in the above manner at the 

 door of my tent, while quite close to the tent was a 

 fire by which sat a watchman, who replenished it 

 throughout the night as it burned low. I had also 

 arranged cut thorn bushes in such a way that any 

 prowler of the night would have to pass close to the 



