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bolted away trumpeting to the jungle hard by. The 

 man was a good deal knocked out of time and bruised, 

 and his wife came to us in tears to say that the 

 elephant would certainly kill him as it was a vicious 

 brute, and had already dispatched three of its former 

 keepers. 



As she was speaking we could hear it trumpeting 

 and tearing up trees in the jungle a short distance off, 

 and as the mahouts said it was advisable not to attempt 

 its recapture until it had cooled down a little, we returned 

 to our tents. In a quarter of an hour there was an 

 alarm that the brute was invading the camp, so we went 

 out with our rifles, which of course were only to be 

 used in case of absolute emergency. 



The elephant stopped within twenty yards of the 

 tents, and was eventually captured and shackled by the 

 assistance of his comrade, and after a good deal of trouble. 

 Meanwhile " Kistiah " had arrived with news of a tiger 

 having been marked down in a small hill two miles 

 distant, in a patch of scrub jungle which was in an 

 isolated position, and that we were certain to get a shot at 

 him, adding that he had been seen to approach one of 

 our haylas, but, after a searching inspection, evidently 

 came to the conclusion that it was not succulent enough, 

 for he passed on and took up his quarters in the isolated 

 hill aforesaid, where two coolies were left to watch him. 



On account of the delay caused by the elephant's 

 escapade we did not leave camp till ten o'clock a.m., 

 and then took both elephants with us, the culprit's hind 

 legs being loosely fettered, which caused him to shuffle 

 along in a peculiar way, this being a preliminary part 

 of his punishment, which the mahout said was to consist 

 mainly of low dieting and stoppages of all elephantine 



