CHAPTER XVI. 



INCIDENTS IN ELEPHANT-SHOOTING. 



CAMP AT POONJOOR— WANT OP RAIN — MOVE CAMP — A TIGER IN A SHOLAQa'o HUT— SHO- 

 LAGA TRACKERS — A TROUBLESOME COUGH — FIND ELEPHANTS — MANOEUVRE TO GET A 

 SHOT — KILi A TUSKER— I NARROWLY ESCAPE AN INGLORIOUS END — JUNGLE-TRACKERS 



— MY YOUTHFUL TRACKER GORRAVA — THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HITTING AND BAG- 

 GING — PERSEVERANCE — THE KAKANKOTE ROGUE — HIS HABITS — KILLS TWO TRAVELLERS 



— KAKANKOTi — THE CUBBANY RIVER — FOREST — KURRABAS — THEIR HABITS, FOOD, 

 APPEARANCE, DWELLINGS — GARROW AND CHITTAGONG WILD TRIBEs' DWELLINGS — 

 KORRABAS' METHODS OF CATCHING WILD ANIMALS — THE FLYING SQUIRREL — ETHNO- 

 LOGY OF THE KURRABAS — OLD POOJAREE — JUNGLE TRIBES* FEa.R OF ELEPHANTS — I 

 REACH k1kaNK0T:6 to hunt the ROGUE— news op him — TRACK HIM — HEAVY RAIN 

 — FIRE AT THE ROGUE — WILD ELEPHANTS' RUSHES — THE ROGUE ESCAPES— MELAN- 

 CHOLY REFLECTIONS. 



IT was in July 1870 that I had obtained ten days' leave of absence, which 

 it was my intention to devote to a bear and bison shooting expedition at 

 Poonjoor. I had already sent on my tents and servants from Mysore, and 

 on the day before my leave commenced I managed to be at Atticulpoor, on 

 the extreme limit of my district, so as to commence shooting without loss 

 of time. I spent the day in casting bullets and making other preparations, 

 and in viewing with pleasant anticipation the Billiga-rungun hills, stretching 

 before me in a grand blue line. The day was delightfully cool and cloudy, 

 and the highest peaks were often hidden in the mists. With my glass I 

 ■could see a mass of rocks away on the left, twenty miles distant, where I 

 had captured a pair of tiger-cubs two months before ; also the valley where 

 I had shot my first bison, and other places endeared to me by similar 

 recollections. 



Having taken some coffee and biscuits early next morning, I jumped 

 into my trap with my guns, which the horsekeeper held whilst I drove. 



