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Some men, however, who, contrary to my orders, 

 had followed me closely, now went along the bank 

 of the river, and found him lying under a tree. 

 Luckily, he did not charge, but sneaked away. 

 Blood was there discovered, so we were assured he 

 was wounded, and, owing to his want of either in- 

 clination or power to make straight away, probably 

 severely. This we afterwards found to be the case ; 

 but for all that, I was the whole day engaged in 

 following him, to the great disgust of the elephant, 

 which he expressed by repeatedly refusing to go any 

 further roaring and waving his trunk about in a 

 manner highly suggestive of the discomfort of being 

 picked out of the howdah, and hurled to earth. In 

 fact, the mahout's control of him was only very 

 partial. I heard that soon afterwards he had be- 

 come quite * must ' and unruly, was chained up, 

 and no one dared approach him. 



" After the men had seen the tiger, as I have 

 said, we decided on ' pugging ' him, and then, when 

 tracked to any thick cover, again make use of the 

 .elephant. This we did ; but the men after awhile 

 asked me to remount, as I could then push on after 

 the beast if we sighted it ; and also, from my ele- 

 vated position, be better able to discern it among 

 the bushes. I did so, and the men continued 

 tracking just in front. Once I saw the beast, but 



