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crushing of boughs and small trees, as if 

 some very large animal was forcing his 

 way through the bushes at headlong 

 speed. From what my father and the 

 shikaris had told me of these matters, I 

 felt sure it must be a musk elephant, and 

 he is the most dangerous of animals. A 

 musk elephant is a male one, who is driven 

 out of a flock of elephants by the other 

 males, and this does not occur, till he has 

 fought them all and been beaten by them 

 all in turn; he then leaves the tribe to 

 wander into the jungle by himself, and 

 being now dreadfully sulky and ill- 

 tempered, he amuses himself by doing 

 all the mischief he can ; and he is then most 

 dangerous in the way of attacking travel- 

 lers, who, in consequence, have a whole- 

 some dread of him. 



11 1 had hardly cast this up in my mind, 



