264 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER CH. 



II. 



A couple of days after the incidents related above, 

 we followed up the spoor of four more elephants 

 and succeeded in coming up with them, but in such 



THREE VERY FINE ELEPHANTS' TAILS, AND ONE ABSOLUTELY DEVOID 



OF HAIR. 



dense bush that, though we could hear them 

 bursting their way through the growth, seeing them 

 was well-nigh impossible. In the midst of this 

 exasperating state of affairs, the wind suddenly 

 veered round, gave them our scent, and sent them 

 crashing off through the jungle at a tremendous 

 pace. Twice again, we came up with them, but the 



