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CHAPTER XVII. 



ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN THE ANNAMULLAY FOREST. 



Coimbatore. News of elephants. A Poojah to propitiate the 

 Hindoo deities meets with no satisfactory results. A court- 

 martial held on the recusant Sawmy. Sentence and execution. 

 The ghost of the injured Sawmy appears to the Gooroo. 

 His threat. The laying of the spirit. Result obtained. The 



start. M 's hut at Tunnacuddoo. His hospitality. A 



bison wounded. Taketty. News of a herd of elephants. 

 Our bivouac. A night alarm. Elephants astir. A bull- 

 elephant yields up his spoils. An immense snake caught. 

 We follow up the spoor of the herd. Beautiful forest scenery. 

 Tracking by torchlight. Difficulties surmounted. We 

 swim a nullah. The trail. The herd in view. A bull-ele- 

 phant anchored. A second tusker wounded. A charge. A 

 predicament. A lucky shot decides the day. The result of a 

 pat from an elephant. 



/COIMBATORE has ever been considered one of 

 ^ the most desirable of our military cantonments 

 in Southern India, not only on account of its prox- 

 imity to the Neilgherry and Annamullay Mountains, 

 and its comparatively cool and salubrious climate, 



