CHAPTER X 



Hunting Scenes 



^pHOROUGHLY tested in the field in the 

 company of his kind the elephant, Maula 

 Bux, was now to be used in a more trying yet 

 more interesting form of sport. Relieved of 

 the heavy howdah which swayed at each stride 

 and seriously incommoded him, the elephant 

 had now to carry nothing but a light frame-work 

 on which his master sat immediately behind the 

 driver. Thus caparisoned he could pass readily 

 through the densest jungle, nor did the over- 

 hanging boughs present so constant an impedi- 

 ment to him. The animal loved these silent 

 roamings through the forest, when no word was 

 spoken lest the jungle tribes might become 

 aware of the presence of man : when he was 

 guided by pressure of knee or touch of hand ; 

 when he could as he passed graze on the 



